It's been a morbid thing for me to ponder, but ever since David Foster Wallace–author of Infinite Jest, most famously, and a host of short stories and journalism that use humor and language in ways that continually surprise me–killed himself last September, I've been wondering what writing was still on his desk, unfinished and unpolished. … Continue reading I’ve been waiting for this
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John Updike is dead, Part 2
Okay, so I was in error when I wrote this post, concerning the death of celebrated writer John Updike. In the post I wrote that I had never read any of Updike's work. This, I now realize, was an error. See, I'd forgotten that Updike used to write for The New Yorker–especially the Talk of … Continue reading John Updike is dead, Part 2
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