Literary criticism

On David Foster Wallace

Host Jon Baskin , Violet Lucca , Guest Lauren Oyler

Reconsidering the man, the meme, and the writing

Comparative Literature

From similes used by the critic Dwight Garner in book reviews for the New York Times since 2017. Like frogs run over by a lawn mower Like a goose dementedly…

Elizabeth Hardwick’s “The Decline of Book Reviewing” (1959)

by Harper’s Magazine ,

A core piece in the canon of criticism on criticism

Literary criticism

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On David Foster Wallace

Comparative Literature

Elizabeth Hardwick’s “The Decline of Book Reviewing” (1959)

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