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Public Library 13.11

Borges on the Couch by David Foster Wallace. One of my favourite authors reviews the biography of my other favourite author – and nails it. From the NY Times. In Retreat. Malcolm Knox on the future of gentlemen’s clubs, from The Monthly. ‘We Like Lists Because We Don’t Want to Die’. Umberto Eco interviewed in Spiegel Online. T.S. [...]
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Writing stories that have already been written: David Foster Wallace and Malcolm Knox

In 1996, following the success of his article, ‘Getting Away from Already Being Pretty Much Away from It All’, a story he wrote on the Illinois State Fair, David Foster Wallace was commissioned by Harper’s magazine to go on a seven night cruise. As with the fair, the journalistic framework of the project was simply [...]
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