DFW

I’ve never read any of the huge books that David Foster Wallace. It seemed like a project on a par with life projects—kottke.org has this list of resources for reading Infinite Jest. I am still really sad that he passed. If you want to get a sense of what really good writing is, in any domain, I recommend reading his piece on Roger Federer in the New York Times sports magazine Play.

Insensitive Semantics, Chp. 6

Welcome back! Time to report on our most recent meeting of our reading group, this one concerned with chapter 6. I presented, and my handout is available here.

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