Social Media Ideas for David Foster Wallace

Here’s everything ‘Infinite Jest’ got right 30 years ago about life in 2026

Few opuses come quite as magnum as Infinite Jest, an intimidating tree stump of a book that makes for singularly cumbersome beach reading. Entertainment Weekly’s literary critic...

A Short Defense of Sports Clichés

On "the perceived chasm between a great athlete’s genius and their apparent inability to talk about it after the fact."

Barthelme, the Houstonian

“Barthelme died in 1989, at the age of fifty-eight. I was at college and heard the news from a friend who worked at a Kinko’s to which one of the Barthelme brothers had brought Don...

The Twenty-Year Novel: Harriet Clark on The Hill

If you’re deprived of a home, deprived of access to your family, you learn that, actually, being bound to others is the significant thing.

Domestic prisons and gilded cages

David Flusfeder’s Something Might Fall arrives as a compelling reminder of the novella's unique, minimalistic power

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