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Patricia Lockwood · Where be your jibes now? David Foster Wallace · LRB 13 July 2023

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We knew he was not benevolent exactly (well, some of us knew) but there was the sense that he was suffering on the same...

Vol. 45 No. 14 · 13 July 2023 Where be your jibes now? Patricia Lockwood Share on Bluesky Share on Facebook Share Email Print 8121 words Something to Do with Paying Attention by David Foster Wallace . McNally Editions, 136 pp., $18, April 2022, 978 1 946022 27 1 Show More Show More I can list ​ a hundred things David Foster Wallace should have written before he wrote a book about tax accountants. One, and the most obvious, is a novel about Irish dancers on tour with a Michael Flatley figure whose influence grows more sinister over time. Pounds of verbal oil will be poured into his perm;

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