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Everything and More: The Pale King by David Foster Wallace

 

April 26, 2011 | Old Gym | New York City

With Rick Moody, Sandro Veronesi, and Michael Pietsch; moderated by Laura Miller

 

LISTEN | Download the mp3
 

CLIPS: Rick Moody Reading (1)  | Rick Moody Reading (2)

 PHOTO GALLERY | View the photo gallery on Flickr  

In this magnificent book left unfinished at his death, David Foster Wallace anatomizes contemporary American sadness and boredom by investigating its Internal Revenue System. The result: a hilarious, truthful, and embittered vision of late-model capitalism and its discontents.
 

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