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David Foster Wallace

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David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008) was an American writer and university instructor in the disciplines of English and creative writing. [1]

150 relations: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, A Totally Fun Thing That Bart Will Never Do Again, Aga Khan Prize for Fiction, Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself, Amherst College, Antidepressant, Berlin, Both Flesh and Not, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (film), Buenos Aires, Catholic Church, Champaign, Illinois, Charles Yu, Charlie Rose (TV series), Christopher Lydon, Claremont, California, Clause, Colin Harrison (writer), Conjunctions, Consider the Lobster, Creative writing, Darin Strauss, Dave Eggers, David Gates, David Gordon (novelist), David Lipsky, David Lynch, Deb Olin Unferth, Don DeLillo, Donald Antrim, Electroconvulsive therapy, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Emerson College, English studies, Eric Moe (composer), Esquire (magazine), Gawker, George Saunders, George W. Bush, Gerry Howard, Glee club, Gourmet (magazine), GQ, Harper's Magazine, Harry Ransom Center, Harvard University, Hebbel am Ufer, Hollywood Fringe Festival, Hysterical realism, ..., Illinois State University, Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead, Infinite Jest, Irony, Ithaca, New York, James D. Wallace, Jason Segel, Jesse Eisenberg, John Irving, John Krasinski, John McCain, John McCain presidential campaign, 2000, John Ziegler (talk show host), Jonathan Franzen, Kenyon College, Lannan Literary Awards, Latin honors, Literary fiction, Little, Brown and Company, Los Angeles Times, Loyola University New Orleans, MacArthur Fellows Program, Maine, Major depressive disorder, Malcolm Knox (author), Mary Karr, Master of Fine Arts, Mennonites, Metafiction, Michael Joyce (tennis), Michael Schur, Michael Silverblatt, Michiko Kakutani, Mid-American Review, Modal logic, NBC, New Sincerity, New York International Fringe Festival, Newsweek, Non-fiction, Note (typography), O. Henry Award, Oblivion: Stories, Open City (magazine), Parkland College, Parks and Recreation, Parody, Phenelzine, Playboy, Pomona College, Post-postmodernism, Postmodern literature, Postmodernism, Premiere (magazine), Puerto del Sol, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Rivka Galchen, Rolling Stone, Roy E. Disney, Salon (website), Sarasota Film Festival, September 11 attacks, Sex industry, Solipsism, Stanley Elkin, State fair, Steven Moore (author), Sundance Film Festival, Tennis, Tennis (magazine), The Atlantic, The Broom of the System, The Decemberists, The End of the Tour, The Intercept, The Metropolis Case, The Monthly, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Pale King, The Paris Review, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Simpsons, The Washington Post, The World According to Garp, This Is Water, Thomas Pynchon, Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, To the Best of Our Knowledge, Tornado, University of Arizona, University of Texas at Austin, Urbana High School (Illinois), Urbana, Illinois, US Open (tennis), V., Waterstones, WCAI, Whiting Awards, Zadie Smith. Expand index (100 more) »

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again

A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments is a 1997 collection of nonfiction writing by David Foster Wallace.

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A Totally Fun Thing That Bart Will Never Do Again

"A Totally Fun Thing That Bart Will Never Do Again" is the 19th episode of the 23rd season of the American animated television sitcom The Simpsons.

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Aga Khan Prize for Fiction

The Aga Khan Prize for Fiction was awarded by the editors of The Paris Review for what they deem to be the best short story published in the magazine in a given year.

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Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself

Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace is a 2010 book by David Lipsky, about a five-day road trip with the author David Foster Wallace.

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Amherst College

Amherst College is a private liberal arts college located in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States.

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Antidepressant

Antidepressants are drugs used for the treatment of major depressive disorder and other conditions, including dysthymia, anxiety disorders, obsessive–compulsive disorder, eating disorders, chronic pain, neuropathic pain and, in some cases, dysmenorrhoea, snoring, migraine, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), addiction, dependence, and sleep disorders.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and the largest city of Germany, as well as one of its 16 constituent states.

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Both Flesh and Not

Both Flesh and Not: Essays is a collection of fifteen essays by American author David Foster Wallace published posthumously in 2012.

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Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (1999) is a collection of 23 short stories by American writer David Foster Wallace.

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Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (film)

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men is a 2009 American comedy-drama film written, produced, and directed by John Krasinski, based on a short story collection of the same name by David Foster Wallace.

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Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires is the capital and most populous city of Argentina.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Champaign, Illinois

Champaign is a city in Champaign County, Illinois, United States.

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Charles Yu

Charles Yu (Chinese name: You Chao-Kai/"游朝凱", born in 1976 in Los Angeles) is a Taiwanese American writer.

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Charlie Rose (TV series)

Charlie Rose is an American television interview show, with Charlie Rose as executive producer, executive editor, and host.

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Christopher Lydon

Christopher Lydon (born 1940 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American media personality and author.

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Claremont, California

Claremont is a city on the eastern edge of Los Angeles County, California, United States, east of downtown Los Angeles.

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Clause

In grammar, a clause is the smallest grammatical unit that can express a complete proposition.

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Colin Harrison (writer)

Colin Harrison (born 1960 in New York City) is an American novelist and editor.

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Conjunctions

Conjunctions, is a biannual American literary journal based at Bard College.

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Consider the Lobster

Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (2005) is a collection of essays by novelist David Foster Wallace.

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Creative writing

Creative writing is any writing that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, or technical forms of literature, typically identified by an emphasis on narrative craft, character development, and the use of literary tropes or with various traditions of poetry and poetics.

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Darin Strauss

Darin Strauss (born March 1, 1970) is a best-selling American writer whose work has earned a number of awards, including, among numerous others, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

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Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970) is an American writer, editor, and publisher.

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David Gates

David Ashworth Gates (born December 11, 1940) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and producer, best known as the frontman and co-lead singer (with Jimmy Griffin) of the group Bread, which reached the tops of the musical charts in Europe and North America on several occasions in the 1970s.

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David Gordon (novelist)

David Gordon (born 1967) is an American novelist.

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David Lipsky

David Lipsky (born July 20, 1965) is an American author.

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David Lynch

David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American filmmaker, painter, musician, actor, and photographer.

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Deb Olin Unferth

Deb Olin Unferth (born 1968) is an American short-story writer, novelist, and memoirist.

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Don DeLillo

Donald Richard "Don" DeLillo (born November 20, 1936) is an American novelist, playwright and essayist.

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Donald Antrim

Donald Antrim (born 1958) is an American novelist.

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Electroconvulsive therapy

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), formerly known as electroshock therapy, and often referred to as shock treatment, is a psychiatric treatment in which seizures are electrically induced in patients to provide relief from mental disorders.

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Elizabeth Wurtzel

Elizabeth Lee Wurtzel (born July 31, 1967) is an American writer and journalist, known for publishing her best-selling memoir Prozac Nation, at the age of 26.

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Emerson College

Emerson College is a private college in downtown Boston, Massachusetts.

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English studies

English studies (usually called simply English) is an academic discipline taught in primary, secondary, and post-secondary education in English-speaking countries; it is not to be confused with English taught as a foreign language, which is a distinct discipline.

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Eric Moe (composer)

Eric Moe, born October 24, 1954 in Durham, NC, is an American composer and pianist.

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Esquire (magazine)

Esquire is an American men's magazine, published by the Hearst Corporation in the United States.

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Gawker

Gawker was an American blog founded by Nick Denton and Elizabeth Spiers and based in New York City focusing on celebrities and the media industry.

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George Saunders

George Saunders (born December 2, 1958) is an American writer of short stories, essays, novellas, children's books, and novels.

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George W. Bush

George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009.

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Gerry Howard

Gerry Howard is an editor under Random House.

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Glee club

A glee club is a musical group or choir group, historically of male voices but also of female or mixed voices, which traditionally specializes in the singing of short songs—glees—by trios or quartets.

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Gourmet (magazine)

Gourmet magazine was a monthly publication of Condé Nast and the first U.S. magazine devoted to food and wine.

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GQ

GQ (formerly Gentlemen's Quarterly) is an international monthly men's magazine based in New York City and founded in 1931.

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Harper's Magazine

Harper's Magazine (also called Harper's) is a monthly magazine of literature, politics, culture, finance, and the arts.

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Harry Ransom Center

The Harry Ransom Center is an archive, library and museum at the University of Texas at Austin, USA, specializing in the collection of literary and cultural artifacts from the United States and Europe for the purpose of advancing the study of the arts and humanities.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Hebbel am Ufer

The Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) is a theater and international performance center based in Berlin, Germany.

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Hollywood Fringe Festival

The Hollywood Fringe Festival is an annual fringe theatre festival in Hollywood, California.

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Hysterical realism

Hysterical realism, also called recherché postmodernism, is a term coined in 2000 by English critic James Wood to describe what he sees as a literary genre typified by a strong contrast between elaborately absurd prose, plotting, or characterization, on the one hand, and careful, detailed investigations of real, specific social phenomena on the other.

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Illinois State University

Illinois State University (ISU) is a public university in Normal, Illinois.

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Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead

The Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead is one of the annual Independent Spirit Awards.

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Infinite Jest

Infinite Jest is a 1996 novel by American writer David Foster Wallace.

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Irony

Irony, in its broadest sense, is a rhetorical device, literary technique, or event in which what appears, on the surface, to be the case, differs radically from what is actually the case.

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Ithaca, New York

Ithaca is a city in the Finger Lakes region of New York.

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James D. Wallace

James Donald Wallace is Emeritus Professor of Moral Philosophy at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignFaculty Home Page: http://www.philosophy.illinois.edu/people/jwallace and the author of several books on the subject of morality and ethics that draw on the American philosophical tradition of Pragmatism, in particular the ethical theory of John Dewey.

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Jason Segel

Jason Jordan Segel (born January 18, 1980) is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer.

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Jesse Eisenberg

Jesse Adam Eisenberg (born October 5, 1983) is an American actor, author, and playwright.

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John Irving

John Winslow Irving (born John Wallace Blunt Jr.; March 2, 1942) is an American novelist and screenwriter.

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John Krasinski

John Burke Krasinski (born October 20, 1979) is an American actor, screenwriter, producer, and director.

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John McCain

John Sidney McCain III (born August 29, 1936) is an American politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Arizona, a seat he was first elected to in 1986.

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John McCain presidential campaign, 2000

The 2000 presidential campaign of John McCain, the United States Senator from Arizona, began in September 1999.

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John Ziegler (talk show host)

John Ziegler (born March 28, 1967) is a radio program host, documentary film writer/director, and journalist.

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Jonathan Franzen

Jonathan Earl Franzen (born August 17, 1959) is an American novelist and essayist.

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Kenyon College

Kenyon College is a private liberal arts college in Gambier, Ohio, United States, founded in 1824 by Philander Chase.

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Lannan Literary Awards

The Lannan Literary Awards are a series of CATS and literary fellowships given out in various fields by the Lannan Foundation.

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Latin honors

Latin honors are Latin phrases used to indicate the level of distinction with which an academic degree has been earned.

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Literary fiction

Literary fiction is fiction that is regarded as having literary merit, as distinguished from most commercial or "genre" fiction.

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Little, Brown and Company

Little, Brown and Company is an American publisher founded in 1837 by Charles Coffin Little and his partner, James Brown, and for close to two centuries has published fiction and nonfiction by American authors.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

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Loyola University New Orleans

Loyola University New Orleans is a private, co-educational, Jesuit university located in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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MacArthur Fellows Program

The MacArthur Fellows Program, MacArthur Fellowship, or "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 30 individuals, working in any field, who have shown "extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction" and are citizens or residents of the United States.

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Maine

Maine is a U.S. state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

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Major depressive disorder

Major depressive disorder (MDD), also known simply as depression, is a mental disorder characterized by at least two weeks of low mood that is present across most situations.

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Malcolm Knox (author)

Malcolm Knox (born 1966), is an Australian journalist and author.

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Mary Karr

Mary Karr (born January 16, 1955) is an American poet, essayist and memoirist from East Texas.

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Master of Fine Arts

A Master of Fine Arts (MFA or M.F.A.) is a creative degree in fine arts, including visual arts, creative writing, graphic design, photography, filmmaking, dance, theatre, other performing arts—or in some cases, theatre management or arts administration.

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Mennonites

The Mennonites are members of certain Christian groups belonging to the church communities of Anabaptist denominations named after Menno Simons (1496–1561) of Friesland (which today is a province of the Netherlands).

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Metafiction

Metafiction is a form of literature that emphasizes its own constructedness in a way that continually reminds the reader to be aware that they are reading or viewing a fictional work.

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Michael Joyce (tennis)

Michael T. Joyce (born February 1, 1973) is an American former tennis player, who turned professional in 1991.

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Michael Schur

Michael Herbert Schur is an American television producer, writer, and actor, best known for his work on the NBC comedy series The Office (2005–2013) and Parks and Recreation (2009–2015), the latter of which he co-created along with Greg Daniels.

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Michael Silverblatt

Michael Silverblatt (born August 6, 1952) is an American broadcaster who has been the host of Bookworm, a nationally syndicated radio program focusing on books and literature, since 1989.

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Michiko Kakutani

is an American literary critic and former chief book critic for The New York Times.

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Mid-American Review

Mid-American Review (MAR) is an international literary journal dedicated to publishing contemporary fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and translations.

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Modal logic

Modal logic is a type of formal logic primarily developed in the 1960s that extends classical propositional and predicate logic to include operators expressing modality.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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New Sincerity

New Sincerity (closely related to and sometimes described as synonymous with post-postmodernism) is a trend in music, aesthetics, literary fiction, film criticism, poetry, literary criticism and philosophy.

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New York International Fringe Festival

The New York International Fringe Festival, or FringeNYC, is a fringe theater festival and one of the largest multi-arts events in North America.

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Newsweek

Newsweek is an American weekly magazine founded in 1933.

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Non-fiction

Non-fiction or nonfiction is content (sometimes, in the form of a story) whose creator, in good faith, assumes responsibility for the truth or accuracy of the events, people, or information presented.

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Note (typography)

A note is a string of text placed at the bottom of a page in a book or document or at the end of a chapter, volume or the whole text.

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O. Henry Award

The O. Henry Award is an annual American award given to short stories of exceptional merit.

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Oblivion: Stories

Oblivion: Stories (2004) is a collection of short fiction by American author David Foster Wallace.

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Open City (magazine)

Open City Magazine and Books was a New York City-based magazine and book publisher that featured many first-time writers alongside those who are well known.

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Parkland College

Parkland College is a two-year community college in Champaign, Illinois, a member of the Illinois Community College System serving Community College District 505.

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Parks and Recreation

Parks and Recreation is an American political satire television sitcom created by Greg Daniels and Michael Schur.

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Parody

A parody (also called a spoof, send-up, take-off, lampoon, play on something, caricature, or joke) is a work created to imitate, make fun of, or comment on an original work—its subject, author, style, or some other target—by means of satiric or ironic imitation.

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Phenelzine

Phenelzine (Nardil, Nardelzine) is a non-selective and irreversible monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) of the hydrazine class which is used as an antidepressant and anxiolytic.

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Playboy

Playboy is an American men's lifestyle and entertainment magazine.

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Pomona College

Pomona College is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational, liberal arts college in Claremont, California, United States.

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Post-postmodernism

Post-postmodernism is a wide-ranging set of developments in critical theory, philosophy, architecture, art, literature, and culture which are emerging from and reacting to postmodernism.

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Postmodern literature

Postmodern literature is literature characterized by reliance on narrative techniques such as fragmentation, paradox, and the unreliable narrator; and is often (though not exclusively) defined as a style or a trend which emerged in the post–World War II era.

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Postmodernism

Postmodernism is a broad movement that developed in the mid- to late-20th century across philosophy, the arts, architecture, and criticism and that marked a departure from modernism.

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Premiere (magazine)

Premiere was an American and New York City-based film magazine published by Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S., between 1987 and 2010.

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Puerto del Sol

Puerto del Sol is a non-profit literary magazine run by graduate students from the English department New Mexico State University at New Mexico State University.

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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.

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Rivka Galchen

Rivka Galchen (born April 19, 1976) is a Canadian-American writer.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.

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Roy E. Disney

Roy Edward Disney, KCSG (January 10, 1930 – December 16, 2009) was a longtime senior executive for The Walt Disney Company, which was founded by his father, Roy Oliver Disney and uncle Walt Disney.

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Salon (website)

Salon is an American news and opinion website, created by David Talbot in 1995 and currently owned by the Salon Media Group.

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Sarasota Film Festival

The Sarasota Film Festival is a film festival located in Sarasota, Florida and is held in April.

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September 11 attacks

The September 11, 2001 attacks (also referred to as 9/11) were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001.

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Sex industry

The sex industry (also called the sex trade) consists of businesses which either directly or indirectly provide sex-related products and services or adult entertainment.

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Solipsism

Solipsism is the philosophical idea that only one's own mind is sure to exist.

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Stanley Elkin

Stanley Lawrence Elkin (May 11, 1930 – May 31, 1995) was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist.

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State fair

A state fair is an annual competitive and recreational gathering of a U.S. state's population, usually held in late summer or early fall.

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Steven Moore (author)

Steven Moore (born May 15, 1951) is an American author and literary critic.

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Sundance Film Festival

The Sundance Film Festival, a program of the Sundance Institute, takes place annually in Park City, Utah.

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Tennis

Tennis is a racket sport that can be played individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles).

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Tennis (magazine)

TENNIS is an American sports magazine owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group.

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The Atlantic

The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher, founded in 1857 as The Atlantic Monthly in Boston, Massachusetts.

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The Broom of the System

The Broom of the System is the first novel by the American writer David Foster Wallace, published in 1987.

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The Decemberists

The Decemberists are an American indie rock band from Portland, Oregon.

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The End of the Tour

The End of the Tour is a 2015 American drama film about writer David Foster Wallace.

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The Intercept

The Intercept is an online news publication dedicated to what it describes as "adversarial journalism".

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The Metropolis Case

The Metropolis Case is the debut novel of American author Matthew Gallaway.

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The Monthly

The Monthly is an Australian national magazine of politics, society and the arts, which is published eleven times per year on a monthly basis except the December/January issue.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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The Pale King

The Pale King is an unfinished novel by David Foster Wallace, published posthumously on April 15, 2011.

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The Paris Review

The Paris Review is a quarterly English language literary magazine established in Paris in 1953 by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton.

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The Philadelphia Inquirer

The Philadelphia Inquirer is a morning daily newspaper that serves the Philadelphia metropolitan area of the United States.

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The Simpsons

The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.

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The World According to Garp

The World According to Garp is John Irving's fourth novel, about a man, born out of wedlock to a feminist leader, who grows up to be a writer.

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This Is Water

This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life is an essay by David Foster Wallace, first published in book form by Little, Brown and Company in 2009.

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Thomas Pynchon

Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. (born May 8, 1937) is an American novelist.

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Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern

Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern is an American literary journal, typically containing short stories, reportage, and illustrations.

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To the Best of Our Knowledge

To the Best of Our Knowledge (also known by the acronym TTBOOK) is a weekly public-radio interview program produced by Wisconsin Public Radio and distributed by PRX.

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Tornado

A tornado is a rapidly rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud.

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University of Arizona

The University of Arizona (also referred to as U of A, UA, or Arizona) is a public research university in Tucson, Arizona.

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University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas at Austin (UT, UT Austin, or Texas) is a public research university and the flagship institution of the University of Texas System.

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Urbana High School (Illinois)

Urbana High School is the only public high school in Urbana, Illinois and was established in 1872.

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Urbana, Illinois

Urbana is a city in and the county seat of Champaign County, Illinois, United States.

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US Open (tennis)

The United States Open Tennis Championships is a hard court tennis tournament.

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V.

V. is the debut novel of Thomas Pynchon, published in 1963.

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Waterstones

Waterstones, formerly Waterstone's, is a British book retailer that operates about 250 shops, mainly in the UK and also other nearby countries.

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WCAI

WCAI (Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 90.1), WNAN (Nantucket, 91.1) and WZAI (Brewster, 94.3) are National Public Radio member radio stations serving the Cape Cod and Islands area of southeast Massachusetts.

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Whiting Awards

The Whiting Award is an American award presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and plays.

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Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith FRSL (born 25 October 1975) is a contemporary British novelist, essayist, and short-story writer.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Foster_Wallace

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