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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments is a 1997 collection of nonfiction writing by David Foster Wallace.. In the title essay, originally published in Harper's as "Shipping Out", Wallace describes the excesses of his one-week trip in the Caribbean aboard the cruise ship MV Zenith, which he rechristens the Nadir.
Broom was published in 1987 as Wallace completed a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing at the University of Arizona. He had also sold his first short-story collection Girl with Curious Hair . Wallace stated that the initial idea for the novel sprang from a remark made by an old girlfriend.
Wallace taught a variety of subjects, including value theory, practical reasoning, social and political philosophy, bioethics, ancient Greek philosophy, and philosophy of art. [2] Wallace was the father of the novelist David Foster Wallace. He was an atheist. [9] Wallace died on July 7, 2019, in Tempe, Arizona, where he had lived since 2012. [1]
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Über alles (German for above all) is a phrase from "Deutschlandlied", the German national anthem.It may also refer to: Über alles, 2003 album by Hanzel und Gretyl; A novel by George Yury Right (Yuri Nesterenko) written from a point of view of a German officer.
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Oblivion: Stories (2004) is a collection of short fiction by the American writer David Foster Wallace. Oblivion is Wallace's third and last short story collection and was listed as a 2004 New York Times Notable Book of the Year. [1] In the stories, Wallace explores the nature of reality, dreams, trauma, and the "dynamics of consciousness."
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