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The Nadir of Western Civilisation?

By chris | Published: 26 September 2009
I have just been reflecting on the rather neat confluence of events in my previous post, Mansfield Park and The Way we Live Now, that Matt Yglesias posted his article declaring he was glad he had been forced to read Anna Karenina and Moby Dick at school, but, after reading Infinite Jest, considers it difficult [...]
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Mansfield Park and The Way we Live Now

By chris | Published: 26 September 2009
Matt Yglesias and other bloggers have been reading and bloging David Foster Wallace’s huge Infinite Jest at A Supposedly Fun Blog.  The name they chose for the blog may have been prophetic, at least for Ezra Klein: But my enjoyment of the book is not outpacing my growing frustration with it. [...] But the things that [...]
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