What did you think? What sentences jumped out at you? What questions stuck with you? (Starts on p. 203 of the new collection of David Foster Wallace's essays, Both Flesh and Not.)
So, I'm not to this essay yet, but I know it from the source, The Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors, published in 2000. I bought it then and it was so very helpful through the years. Love that thing.
DFW here recommends:
Omensetter's Luck, by William H. Gass (1966): amazon.com
Steps, by Jerzy Kosinski (1968): amazon.com
Angels, by Denis Johnson (1983): amazon.com
Blood Meredian, by Cormac McCarthy (1985): amazon.com
Wittgenstein's Mistress, by David Markson (1988): amazon.com
