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David Foster Wallace Speaks
Shout out to Andrew Sullivan for uncovering this interview. I haven’t gotten around to reading Infinite Jest, a monumental effort in-itself, but with each exposure I have to Wallace and his writing, I...
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Wolfe on Twain
Tom Wolfe has a piece in the Times today, “the 100th anniversary, plus four days, of his death,” on Mark Twain. The point: “But just think of it — 20 years! For 20 years, Mark Twain had actually...
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Interlude: Incoming Reads
So I was in Guatemala. Meanwhile, packages were arriving at my place in Virginia. Books. Here’s what came in; I’ll probably end up writing on a few of them here. Should have a lot of time to...
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Hitchens and Rushdie on Literature & Free Speech
Found a great talk from earlier this month by Hitchens and Rushdie. This was at the PEN World Voices Festival. The first 2 of 8 videos are Hitchens’ speech; Rushdie joins him from the middle of the...
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“No Road”
Since we agreed to let the road between us Fall to disuse, And bricked our gates up, planted trees to screen us, And turned all time’s eroding agents loose, Silence, and space, and strangers – our...
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