TALES OF LOHR: A TEST OF UNENDURANCE
On the curious pleasures of the deliberately unpleasant; plus, "Factory Roll Call" hits the catwalk
In preparation for an article I am writing for a well-regarded literary magazine, I recently undertook a reading of one of contemporary fiction’s most daunting edifices: David Foster Wallace’s 1996 doorstop Infinite Jest. Even if you are unaware of the nature of Wallace’s novel, with its thorny thickets of fragmented plot and brobdingnagian vocabulary, …
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