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Deborah Treisman Reads David Foster Wallace

The New Yorker: Fiction

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How Much Back and Forefront Was There When Making Cuts?

Wallace's story, as is often true of his work, is rich in detail and sentences that could perhaps be considered extraneous. Wallace was incredibly precise about what he wanted, and he was very resistant to the idea of changing a draft once he was happy with it. In some places i didn't exactly but read it a phrase or clause in a different way. Basically, i have taken edits or made changes that will hope ly enhance readability and mitigate confusion,. while at the same time preserving a certain not all that well educated, but earnest, young midwest christian voice.

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