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Slate's Audio Book Club: Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace

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The Art of Perception

As a book about sort of patrimony and about fraternity, it's really interesting. The fellowship among these recovering addicts is demonstrated as something that's really real and sustaining. Despite all the cliches that they teach you in a 12 step program, one of the most important things about Wallace's projects here was to sort of invest cliches with some meaning.

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