![]() ![]() I’ve typed my favorite quotes and excerpts from the essays below. He’s unlike Wallace in that he executes his writing in a comparatively conventional way - linear sentences, no fracturing. He’s like Wallace in his interest in both the day-to-day absurdities of living life and the harder / impossible questions that some brave souls puzzle over. ![]() He intersperses light thoughts with deeper philosophical ones. I highly recommend this collection of essays especially if you’re interested in issues of “self” and how literature / writing plays with that notion and the broader relevance of literature more generally. A few weeks ago I re-read Jonathan Franzen‘s collection of essays titled How to Be Alone partly because I was feeling lonely at the time and partly because Franzen was best friends with David Foster Wallace and so it felt timely to think about Wallace through one of his influences. ![]()
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