A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: David Foster Wallace
- First Published: 1997
- Type of Work: Essays
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: Adolescence, Authors or writers, Alienation, Substance abuse, Food, Drug addiction or addicts, Tornadoes, Television or television broadcasting, Filmmaking or filmmakers, Old age or elderly people, Fairs, Mathematics or mathematicians, Commerce, Tennis
Reading David Foster Wallace is like riding a verbal roller coaster or being catapulted by some zany carnival ride that twists and turns one’s perspective, flips the world upside down, and creates a kaleidoscope of blurred colors and rapidly alternating images. His prose is a nonstop language experience, immersing the reader in varieties of slang, four-letter words, technical terminology, academic jargon, and outright linguistic inventions. Only Wallace, for example, would describe the overly solicitous and nervously busy crew of a cruise ship as “amphetaminic,” the same Wallace...
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