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-- I said, there are moments of exaltation. - William Gaddis

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"I think serious art is supposed to make us confront things that are difficult in ourselves and in the world." - DFW
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Hannah Smart@fowlinghantodJun 27
This essay is very dear to my heart. Thank you Hobart and @moonandmouth for publishing it, and thank you Christian for letting me interview you. hobartpulp.com/web_features/…
Infinite Detail: One Man’s Attempt to Graphically Chronicle Infinite Jest by Hannah Smart

Infinite Detail: One Man’s Attempt to Graphically Chronicle Infinite Jest by Hannah Smart

Graphic designer Christian Swinehart wears thick-rimmed square glasses and a green button-down with the top button undone. He articulates his consonants and gesticulates with his hands and sometimes...

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From The WSJ.
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“I don’t understand them. To me that’s not literature. Said Cormac McCarthy of Henry James and Marcel Proust.” David Markson, Vanishing Point p86
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“James O. Incandenza.” p190 Reader’s Block by David Markson
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Something happened! Thanks so much @LAReviewofBooks and particularly editor @_ntj lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
Nothing Ever Happens: “Mister Squishy” and the Year of the Sentence Diagram | Los Angeles Review of...

Nothing Ever Happens: “Mister Squishy” and the Year of the Sentence Diagram | Los Angeles Review of...

Hannah Smart writes about her attempt to diagram a 900-word sentence in David Foster Wallace’s “Mister Squishy,” and what the efforts taught her about human inertia and meaningless language.

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Consider the Lobster tiktok.com/t/ZP8Swo72d/
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TikTok · Dani E

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New article! A lot happened this week, so I wrote about how Antonin Dvorak wrote his greatest works in Spillville, Iowa in the summer of 1893. And about saying goodbye: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p…
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“Make time for reading.”
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Julian Lucas on the visionary novelist and chronicler of gay life who has taken American letters to uncharted realms. newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…
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“It is an occupational hazard for me: I’m so slow. I spend most of my time alone, trying to try to work.” Read the full interview with the writer Leslie Marmon Silko: nyer.cm/6frisDJ
A photograph of Leslie Marmon Silko, by Matt Martin Williams.

ALT A photograph of Leslie Marmon Silko, by Matt Martin Williams.

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"There was a cover of Our Lips are Sealed by Fun Boy Three that he listened to over and over and over again one summer." - Amy Wallace Havens
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"The idea that improved technology is going to solve the problems that technology has caused seems a bit quixotic." - David Foster Wallace
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"Maybe not in my generation but in the one following, America will be more into World Football than you wish they were..." - David Foster Wallace, 2006
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George Saunders on the ‘Braindead Megaphone’ That Makes Our Politics So Awful nyti.ms/3fNgBbj
The spines don't look cracked but, hey.
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The New Yorker: David Foster Wallace’s Final Attempt to Make Art Moral. newyorker.com/books/under-re…
David Foster Wallace’s Final Attempt to Make Art Moral

David Foster Wallace’s Final Attempt to Make Art Moral

In a late work, Wallace captured the appeal—and the impossibility—of the literature that he hoped to create.

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The river at dawn is a strip of foil's dull side. - David Foster Wallace
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From his window Selvy could see a colorless strip of the Anacostia River. - Don DeLillo
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