David Foster Wallace captured a palpable truth almost indescribably profound about contemporary American life. In her endorsement in the newly published Wallace novella, Something To Do With Paying Attention, Zadie Smith identifies the insight of Wallace’s work as “an attention to the secret, battered, deflated spiritual existence of America and Americans.” While it is certainly More

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