It is hard, while in grad school, to keep up with all the writing and reading, even though that is what we’re here to do. Each time a New York Review of Books arrives, I get a few pages into it, sigh, then return to reading about the culture wars of the academy in the 1990s or whatnot. And so it goes with all the periodcals: they crash through the mail slot, demanding attention, but more often than not end up shoved into the magazine rack. At which point I think, geez, I need a bigger magazine rack.
All of which is to say that in the latest New Yorker there is a new short story by David Foster Wallace*. Available online now, and on a magazine rack in my living room for the forseeable future.
*Which, amazingly, actually works in the line “What would even Jesus do,” without irony.**
** I think it’s without irony, that is.
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