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Murder
Saturday, February 27th, 2010She stabbed him to death.
Sweet.
Deliberate.
Silent.
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: From Page to Screen
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010by The Great White Gypsy
I am a David Foster Wallace groupie.
There, I said it. The man has a fairly small body of work; aside from magazine articles, he only wrote two novels and four short story/essay collections before committing suicide in 2008. Even so, he had already established himself as a genius of our time.
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My Infinite Summer: The Beginning
Sunday, June 28th, 2009
I first picked up David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest in the summer before my freshman year of college. I had dropped out of high school at 15, spent a year or so living in Nepal and experiencing the world1, got my GED at 16, murdered my SATs and was ready start college younger (and […]
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Infinite Summer
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009Summer is in full swing. The sun’s coming out more, people are busting out the shorts and flip-flops, the girls are rocking the sundresses. Summer is great. And if you’re anything like me, no matter how much time you spend outside, you need a good book with you while you’re getting a […]
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An Underachiever's Diary: Benjamin Anastas (1999)
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009by The Great White Gypsy
This is a short book about the older of two identical twins. William is just as intelligent as his brother, Clive, but doesn’t apply himself, or go through the standard Freudian stages of childhood with the same speed and grace as his twin. His parents are pop-developmental psychology followers, […]
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Wonder Boys (1995): Michael Chabon
Monday, April 13th, 2009by The Great White Gypsy
Yeah, I know, you can’t hear that title without singing Tenacious D’s catchy song. It’s all I heard in my head for the week I was reading this book, though I tried not to let it detract from the story.
As with most of his novels, Michael Chabon’s story in Wonder Boys […]
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