Blogs about: David Foster Wallace
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60,000
[cue music]: I saw these stats come sailing in, on Christmas Day on Christmas Day. I hit 60,000 views on Christmas Day in the mor-ning. I hit 30,000 views back in March, and I was quite thrilled. Whe… more →
I Just Read About That...
bought books
wrote 14 hours ago: Just bought two new books: Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace And The Road by Cormac McCarthy. In … more →
The Best Nonrequired Sports Writing of the Decade
wrote 20 hours ago: As I’m sure anybody who’s read any sports blog over the past few weeks has noticed, this … more →
5 Links
wrote 1 day ago: Happy 2010, reader. For your reading pleasure: David Foster Wallace Grammar Challenge (I got 2/10, a … more →
DONE! What's next?
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wrote 1 day ago: Done, done, done, done, done, done, done, done, done, done! I spent the past 2 days reading the fina … more →
The Year That Recently Was
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wrote 1 day ago: 2009 will live on in infamy as the year that Jereme Rogers, corporate footwear conglomerates and a B … more →
The Most Anticipated Books of 2010
wrote 2 days ago: As part of my research for a feature story on the future of books, “e-Books: Averting a Digita … more →
On writing
wrote 2 days ago: My backed-up Instapaper has delivered me a spate of writings on writing of late. First, George Orwel … more →
And now for something completely different...
wrote 2 days ago: It is hard to imagine two more completely different environments than Kathmandu and Kentmere (the va … more →
Books To Look Forward To In 2010
wrote 3 days ago: A couple of months ago, this cryptic postcard arrived in the mail: A second novel from Ralph Ellison … more →
Back with McManus, Wondering on Porter
wrote 4 days ago: Cowboys Full by James McManus I’m glad to see McManus back to form on this—his last book, Phys … more →
60,000
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wrote 4 days ago: [cue music]: I saw these stats come sailing in, on Christmas Day on Christmas Day. I hit 60,000 view … more →
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and the Condensed Epic
wrote 5 days ago: In its review of fiction in the Aughts, New York Magazine implicitly compares The Brief Wondrous Lif … more →
this is water
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wrote 1 week ago: What you don’t yet know are the stakes of this struggle. … It’s not the least bit … more →
Featured Picks at Matador!
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wrote 1 week ago: I’m honored that Lola decided to feature my favorite books this week at Matador Goods. Take a … more →
"All That" -- Another Excerpt from DFW's The Pale King
wrote 1 week ago: The New Yorker recently published another excerpt from David Foster Wallace’s forthcoming post … more →
Reading The Book of Basketball: Part 1 (Apologia)
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wrote 1 week ago: Being a fan of a bad team is painful business. You want to not care, to turn off the T.V., to ignore … more →
Monday Links
wrote 1 week ago: Boogity boogity: Despite resistance from the intelligence community, President Obama plans to declas … more →
Are You a Grammar, Usage, and Style Junkie?
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wrote 1 week ago: Have you heard about Ammon Shea, the man who’d read all twenty volumes of the Oxford English D … more →
Snap
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wrote 1 week ago: Saw these two novels (both on my to-read list) near each other on a table at Strand today. Let … more →
