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David Foster Wallace

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4 picks · 1994–2011

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Backbone
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David Foster Wallace's short story about a boy whose ambition is to be able to press his lips to every square inch of his body.

Good People
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Two young Christians and an unwanted pregnancy.

Asset
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Short story in interview form with Johnny One-Arm, of Benton Ridge, OH... Narrator describes how he twists the sympathies of women using his birth …

Several Birds
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Poor Tony Krause is a homeless transvestite drug addict in twenty-first-century Massachusetts. Lengthy footnotes tell how he snatched a woman's …