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David Foster Wallace’s essay on John McCain’s 2000 presidential campaign is being re-issued as a book called McCain’s Promise. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, DFW responded to the question of whether he had changed his mind about his assessment of McCain:
"The essay quite [...]

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from "Looking"
We treat with care what we love, and we love only what we have truly learned to see, with all our senses alert.

from "Hunger for Books"
Like sunshine, like the urgency of spring, like bread, language is so familiar that we easily forget what an amazing gift it is.
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I’m not [...]

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As anyone likely to read my ramblings already knows, Charles Simic is the new Poet Laureate. I’m glad I dropped most of my poetry blog reading list and picked up only a select few I could remember because I can just imagine the working-over that Simic, the choice of Simic, and the position and idea [...]

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Via First Draft a snippet from Mark Taw’s This I Believe entry:
I could say that I believe in America because it rewarded my family’s hard work to overcome poverty. I could say that I believe in holding on to rituals and traditions because they helped us flourish in a new country. But these concepts are [...]

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