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Passe

Posted on July 27, 2007 by twotreatises

for P “The Age of Irony is dead,” she said. The priest and poet nodded in assent. “How did it die?” said I, waiting in dread to hear of destruction without consent. The priest had just one brief explanation: “It … Continue reading →

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David Foster Wallace and Joan Didion podcasts

Posted on May 29, 2007 by twotreatises

I’ve seen David Foster Wallace do book readings twice. The first time was after I’d read the only thing I’d ever read by him, the short story “Brief Interviews with Hideous Men,” which I’d hated. But I owned Infinite Jest … Continue reading →

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