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Originally Posted by montsnmags
I'm not sure you'd like David Foster Wallace, Elfwreck. Intellectually, I would guess you would, but subjectively it's way too hard to say. If you want to give him a go though, I recommend Brief Interviews With Hideous Men. Being all shorts, you could quickly give up if it didn't suit, without that compulsion to finish the whole book (which is me projecting, because that's my compulsion.  ). I very much liked this book, and I've Infinite Jest on my TBR. |
Several of his essays for Harper's are
available as PDFs; I'm going to try a few of those, starting with
Tense Present: Democracy, English, and the Wars over Usage, and from a different site,
Federer as Religious Experience. (I have approximately zero interest in tennis, but much interest in religion.)
I am not, unfortunately, going to budge on the "no DRM" rule for ebooks, and it's unlikely I'll track down hard copy of an unfamiliar author. (I don't like reading paper anymore. There are authors I know I love whom I have to read on paper; I'm trying to avoid adding to that list.)