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What David Foster Wallace taught me about voting

Posted by Mike Pumphrey on November 7, 2016 | Featured

Tomorrow is Election Day in the U.S. This site was launched a few days after the previous presidential election in 2012, so this is the first presidential election under this site’s watch! I know that elections happen all the time … Read More … Read More

Tags: David Foster Wallace, election, voting

On responding to “withering” cultural pressure

Posted by Mike Pumphrey on March 12, 2015 | Featured

Our parents got peer pressure all wrong. The apocryphal “dealer on the playground” never existed, at least not in my experience. No one ever said “it’ll make you feel good” to me, and I never heard anyone I knew … Read More … Read More

Tags: David Foster Wallace, peer pressure

How irony is the enemy of a risk-filled life

Posted by Mike Pumphrey on March 14, 2013 | Featured

Much has been written about the hipster in popular culture. Most of it has been done to death, so I won’t go on about it much, but I’ve been inadvertently on the front lines of hipsterdom for many years … Read More … Read More

Tags: books, criticism, Dave Eggers, David Foster Wallace, irony, risk

David Foster Wallace

What David Foster Wallace taught me about voting

On responding to “withering” cultural pressure

How irony is the enemy of a risk-filled life

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