Posted on 12/06/04
Stories well worth the work
OblivionBy David Foster WallaceLittle, Brown, 329 pages, $35.95Did you miss the shattering twistedness of his story collection Girl with Curious Hair? Are you one who shied from the forbiddingly gargantuan novel Infinite Jest? Did you not heed those emphatic friends-of-friends who swore on their lives and bibles and badges of geekdom that Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (stories) and A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (essays and non-fiction) had redefined the meaning of funny and would alter the rhythmic peaks and troughs of your brain's electromagnetic output?
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