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David Foster Wallace

Boredom Is the Price We Pay for Meaning

February 27, 2026

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Enough With the Bros

February 26, 2026

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Why So Many Writers Are Athletes

January 20, 2026

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The Real Reason Men Should Read Fiction

June 24, 2025

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What Does the Literature of the Working Class Look Like?

April 17, 2025

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A Worthy Heir to David Foster Wallace and Thomas Pynchon

October 17, 2023

Person at the top of a book

How to Build a Life

Why We Do Things We Know We’ll Regret

Arthur C. Brooks

October 6, 2022

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‘One Cannot Shame a Depressed Person Into Getting Well’

February 1, 2020

Suicide Is Not an Act of Cowardice

January 7, 2020

David Foster Wallace circa 2002