2012

BOTH FLESH AND NOT
Essays
By David Foster Wallace
328 pages. Little, Brown & Company. $26.99.
Lengthy Insights, Vividly Served at High Velocity
‘Both Flesh and Not’ by David Foster Wallace
‘Both Flesh and Not’ by David Foster Wallace - The New York Times
By MICHIKO KAKUTANINOV. 15, 2012
“what a first-rate artistic mind can make of particular fact-sets”

Today’s literary landscape, of course, is exponentially richer, more variegated and more complex ― in no small part because of Wallace’s influence on contemporaries and younger writers, who have learned from him how to break the rules, how to combine the high and the low, the pop and the highbrow, and how to find idiosyncratic voices of their own.