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Getting your money’s worth today. My favorite collection of David Foster Wallace essays, “A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again”, is on sale for $2.99.
Some brief reasons you should read this book:
This is the very best introduction to one of America’s very best writers. It’s not too hifalutin, it’s hilarious, it’s nostalgic, and it introduces you to DFW’s one-of-a-kind, quirky voice.
There is a famous problem for midwestern writers, which is: no one knows how to describe the midwest. It’s almost impossible. But DFW does it so brilliantly in his analysis of the State Fair in Illinois, which will make you cry laugh.
Expand DFW’s analysis of television to the current trends we’re seeing with mental health and smartphones, and you have one of the most prescient cultural analysis essays of the 20th century. Especially DFW’s thoughts on irony.
DFW’s descriptions of high school tennis were so vivid I can still picture little moments he described, years after reading. He really takes you there. That alone is worth the price of admission.
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