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Up, Simba!
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David Foster Wallace |
"In February 2000, Rolling Stone magazine sent David Foster Wallace, "NOT A POLITICAL JOURNALIST," on the road for a week with Senator John McCain's campaign to win the Republican nomination for the … |
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The Pale King
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Michael Pietsch,David Foster Wallace |
The character David Foster Wallace is introduced to the banal world of the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, and the host of strange people who work there, in a novel that was unfi… |
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The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006
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Tom Downey,David Rakoff,Joe Sacco,Kurt Vonnegut,Ian McEwan,Judy Budnitz,Art Spiegelman,Michael Lewis,Guy Delisle,Naguib Mahfouz,Miranda July,Gipi,Dave Eggers,村上春樹,Julia Sweeney,Matt Groening,David Foster Wallace,Rick Moody,George Saunders,Jeff Parker,Cat Bohannon,The Lincoln Group,Shaw, Sam |
Presents selections of mainstream and alternative American literature, including both fiction and nonfiction, that discuss a broad spectrum of subjects. |
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String theory
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David Foster Wallace |
Collects essays about tennis in which the author challenges the sports memoir genre, profiles two of the world's greatest players, and shares his own experiences in his youth as a regionally ranked t… |
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El rey palido
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David Foster Wallace |
Al recién llegado David F. Wallace los agentes del Centro Regional de Examen de la Agencia Tributaria de Peoria, Illinois, le parecen de lo más normal. A medida que se adentra en la tediosa y repetit… |
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Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
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David Foster Wallace |
David Foster Wallace made an art of taking readers into places no other writer even gets near. In his exuberantly acclaimed collection, BRIEF INTERVIEWS WITH HIDEOUS MEN, he combined hilarity and an … |
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This is water
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David Foster Wallace |
Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. The speech is reprinted for the first time in book form in T… |
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Consider the lobster, and other essays
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David Foster Wallace |
Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult-video starlets meet their fans in person? David Foster Wallace answers these … |
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A supposedly fun thing I'll never do again
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David Foster Wallace |
A collection of stories from David Foster Wallace is occasion to celebrate. These stories -- which have been prominently serialized in Harper's, Esquire, the Paris Review, and elsewhere -- explore in… |
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