David Foster Wallace
1) This is water: some thoughts, delivered on a significant occasion, about living a compassionate life
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"Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. The speech is reprinted for the first time in book form in THIS IS WATER. How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously? How do we get ourselves out of the foreground of our thoughts and achieve compassion? The speech captures Wallace's electric intellect as well as...
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In the title story a Los Angeles Young Republican relates, with strangely hilarious affectlessness, his night out at a Keith Jarrett concert with is terminmally nihilistic punk friends Gimlet, Cheese, and Big, In "My Appearance" a very famous actresss frets and schemes how to avoid being made the butt of a late-night talk-show host's notoriously slippery jokes, while :Little Expressionless Animals" gives us a three-year streak on a game show, finally...
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Brilliant, dazzling, never-before-collected nonfiction writings by "one of America's most daring and talented writers." (Los Angeles Times Book Review).
Both Flesh and Not gathers fifteen of Wallace's seminal essays, all published in book form for the first time.
Never has Wallace's seemingly endless curiosity been more evident than in this compilation of work spanning nearly 20 years of writing. Here, Wallace turns his critical eye with...
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For this collection, Wallace immerses himself in the three-ring circus that is the presidential race in order to document one of the most vicious campaigns in recent history. Later he strolls from booth to booth at a lobster festival in Maine and risks life and limb to get to the bottom of the lobster question. Then he wheedles his way into an L.A. radio studio, armed with tubs of chicken, to get the behind-the-scenes view of a conservative talk show...
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"Since the time of the ancient Greeks, when Zeno proposed his notorious paradoxes, the nature of infinity has perplexed mathematicians and philosophers. Is it a valid mathematical entity or a meaningless abstraction? Plato and Aristotle in their day, Galileo and Newton nearly two thousand years later, all grappled with it. But it was the nineteenth-century mathematicians Karl Weierstrass, Richard Dedekind, and Georg Cantor whose work established a...