When a student who has been narrowly preparing for a specific field sees their plan radically altered, they have little to cushion their fall. At least a liberal arts model hones a student's thinking skills and intellectual development to be prepared for a change in plan.
Liz Smith | Posted 05.18.2012
Clive, accepting the Richard J. Caron Award for Excellence, appeared to be deeply moved when he said, "I wish with all my heart Whitney had availed herself of the facilities at Caron." His remarks were brief and powerful.
Teddy Wayne | Posted 04.30.2012
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk time-warps back to the excesses of the Bush administration in following the titular protagonist, and the seven surviving members of Bravo Squad, for one afternoon as they receive a heroes' welcome during the Dallas Cowboys' Thanksgiving Day football game.
The Huffington Post | Andres Jauregui | Posted 04.20.2012
On March 27, Hachette Audio released David Foster Wallace's magnum opus "Infinite Jest" -- most of it, at least -- as a 56-hour-long audiobook. Th...
Cole Hill | Posted 04.19.2012
"The IRS knows very well that such qualities help insulate them from public protest and political opposition, and that abstruse dullness is actually a much more effective shield than is secrecy," says David Foster Wallace's in "The Pale King."
Anna King | Posted 05.29.2012
Gabrielle Hamilton's simple descriptions of enjoying salty cheese and a warm salted potato in Amsterdam have the same effect as Hemingway's descriptions of Parisian beer and potato salad: They make you hungry.
Lori Day | Posted 05.19.2012
What is at stake is women's ability to have authentic and freely chosen lives -- nothing less.
David Kersh | Posted 04.28.2012
Like Federer's kinetic beauty there is comedic beauty, and Harpo is at the front, leading the way.
Lisa Blackwell | Posted 04.03.2012
Great writers depict their unique quest for dignity with a freshness and accuracy that reverberates with their readers, especially those with similar experiences.
Posted 12.21.2011
Letters of Note has unearthed (via Flickr) a cover letter both funny and deadly serious that David Foster Wallace faxed to Harper's magazine demanding...
Omer Rosen | Posted 11.20.2011
In a larger sense, all of Wallace's stylings are interruptions -- Brechtian reminders that what you are reading is a construction, that behind it is a man, with his own point of view, who has obsessively constructed the world you are experiencing as whole.
Max Benavidez | Posted 11.19.2011
Artist Karen Green's latest show, "Tiny Stampede," opens Sept. 24, and presents a view into widowhood that is both cleansing and illuminating without ignoring the finality of death.
flavorwire.com | Posted 10.08.2011
This week, we came across this list of ‘books you really should have read in high school’ over at MSNBC’s Today Books. While their picks are def...
Charlie Alderman | Posted 08.29.2011
James Woods describes Jonathan Franzen, as a "cultural ironist, always a twisted adjective ahead of his characters." I'd argue that this gloss of Franzen misrepresents his two most well-known novels.
Posted 08.21.2011
After a long, harsh winter, it is finally really warming up outside. And, boy, does it feel great! We're sure you're daydreaming of the exotic vaca...
thoughtcatalog.com | Brandon Scott Gorrell | Posted 08.16.2011
If you love Hemingway, you probably have a certain respect for Manly Men; for stoicism, strict personal rules, chivalry, traditional gender roles, men...
flavorwire.com | Posted 08.14.2011
Vacations are sacred, especially in America, where we work longer hours than our counterparts in Europe and still aren’t legally entitled to a singl...
The New York Review of Books | Posted 08.14.2011
The following conversation is drawn from an interview I did with David Foster Wallace in September 2006 as part of a series of articles and radio piec...
flavorwire.com | Posted 08.06.2011
Everyone knows that you’re not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but um, we kind of do it all the time. In fact, half the fun of that anachroni...
flavorwire.com | Posted 07.10.2011
We were a little bit late in reading Jorian Polis Schutz’s analysis of manly manes in the last issue of Cabinet, titled “Barbers and Barbarians,...
salon.com | Tracy Clark | Posted 07.04.2011
F. Scott Fitzgerald's generation had its green light at the end of the dock in "The Great Gatsby," that symbol of unattainable dreams, and today's you...
HuffingtonPost.com | Gregory Beyer | Posted 06.21.2011
When an author dies, what happens to his unfinished manuscripts? From Max Brod’s famous refusal to burn the papers left behind by his friend Franz K...
flavorwire.com | Posted 06.15.2011
If you’re already a David Foster Wallace fan we’re guessing that you won’t need our help pointing out that tomorrow marks the publication of his...
AP | By HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 06.14.2011
NEW YORK -- David Foster Wallace's "The Pale King," the year's most awaited and complicated literary novel, has renewed a very old debate. Published ...
Posted 06.11.2011
"The Pale King" by David Foster Wallace Slate Incomplete or not, The Pale King is whole enough, a fully imagined, often exquisitely fleshed-out ...
Lee Jefferson | Posted 05.18.2012