February 2010
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Happy birthday, David Foster Wallace.
He would have been 48 today.
“In his moving eulogy to Wallace published in the 21 September 2008 edition of The New York Times Book Review, A. O. Scott eloquently describes Wallace’s distinctive literary voice as “the voice in your own head.” Scott is absolutely correct, of course, but in a very technical sense that bears exploring. As Infinite Jest reaches its...