David Foster Wallace
ddobbs | June 25, 2010Every time I read David Foster Wallace, I think, that's just classic David Foster Wallace. Which is to say it's completely unexpected, novel, different from the way almost anyone else thinks, including David Foster Wallace the last time I read him.
This is a fun review in the NY Review of Books of a book about Wallace I think I now must get.
I like the title. That's Wallace: Smarter than you think. And even smarter than you think or remember Wallace is from last time you read him.
Smarter than You Think
"What I would love to do is a profile of one of you guys who's doin' a profile of me,"…
bcohen | December 24, 2009"The world is full of light and life, and the true crime is not to be interested in it." A.S. Byatt
"What seems a detour has a way of becoming, in time, a direct route." Richard Powers
I had more fun doing this series than anything else in the past 3+ years here at the Fair. It was a unique opportunity and one that wouldn't have been possible without the blog format. I was able to start down a track and let it run as far as it would go. What seemed like a detour at times had a way of becoming a direct route so that, in the end, the meandering came to encircle epistemology, technology, and…
ddobbs | April 23, 2009In Predicting the determined self-castrator Vaughn Bell links and looks at
a surprising study looking at psychological attributes that predict which castration enthusiasts who will actually go on to remove their own testicles, in contrast to those who just fantasise about it.
That's as far as I got; I couldn't summon the strength to read further, but maybe you can.
Those interested will definitely want to check out the essay with which David Foster Wallace opened his essay collection Consider the Lobster "Big Red Son" opens
The American Academy All emergency medicine confirms it: each year…