David Foster Wallace famously considered the lobster. This week, we consider him! How has his writing–and his legacy–aged in the nearly twenty years since his most well-known essays were published? Also: how mean should creative writing teachers be about lousy (or lazy) student work?
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January 9, 2021 at 2:20 pm
This would have been great if you guys who have eventually gotten around to talking about the contents of the essay, and not just how you/other people felt about having read it 🙂