How To Live Authentically In An Inauthentic World: Laura Miller on David Foster Wallace

To the Best of Our Knowledge | Aug 8, 2015
His writing explodes with manic, high-octane verbal energy, and he wrote about everything under the sun. Verbal pyrotechnics aside,Salon book critic Laura Miller says David Foster Wallace was the most important writer of his time because he was obsessed with the question of how to live authentically in a media-saturated culture of hype. 

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