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Book

Both flesh and not : essays

Call Number

  • 814 W188.2 2013 (CEN)

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Edition

First Back Bay paperback edition.

Publication Information

New York : Back Bay Books : Little, Brown and Company, 2013.

Physical Description

vii, 327 pages ; 22 cm

Summary

A compilation of fifteen of Wallace's seminal essays, all published in book form for the first time.

Contents

  • Federer both flesh and not
  • Fictional futures and the conspicuously young
  • The empty plenum : David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress
  • Mr. Cogito
  • Democracy and commerce at the U.S. Open
  • Back in new fire
  • The (as it were) seminal importance of Terminator 2
  • The nature of the fun
  • Overlooked : five direly underappreciated U.S. novels> 1960
  • Rhetoric and the math melodrama
  • The best of the prose poem
  • Twenty-four word notes
  • Borges on the couch
  • Deciderization 2007 : a special report
  • Just asking.

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