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Updated: Saturday, November 22, 2008 at 3:25pm

Thinking With David Foster Wallace

Wallace, author of ‘Infinite Jest’ and ‘Consider the lobster,’ died last week at 46

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Published Friday, September 19, 2008
The same friend who introduced me to David Foster Wallace once mused that one way to appreciate an artistic work was to realize all the ways it could have been stupid but managed not to be. To my mind, DFW is an important example of how a writer, and specifically a writer from our own academic and cultural milieu, can avoid the particular pitfalls that we here are likely to face when we try to think and write and not be stupid.
#1 By John Breslin (Unregistered User) 3:18pm on September 20, 2008

Arden, what a perfect comment on DFW. Thanks.

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