“Letter From Cuba: The Religious Revival of a Communist State”By Antal Neville
Los Angeles Review of Books
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Being Boring
The novel — what we have of it anyway — challenges us to pay attention with a selflessness that allows the world to "blaze in an almost sacred way." More
Unfinished Form
We best remember Wallace, a walking dead man in our psych ward of a world, by looking past his own personality to our fallen American condition. More
David Foster Wallace
02.21.1962 - 09.12.2008David Foster Wallace was an award-winning American author of novels, essays, and short stories, and a professor at Pomona College in Claremont, California. He was widely known for his 1996 novel Infinite Jest, which Time magazine included in its 2005 list of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present. He committed suicide in 2008. Wallace's unfinished final novel, The Pale King, was published in 2011.
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