On rawdogging David Foster Wallace

The Pale King is a long, dense argument in favour of reading long, dense books

“Television is the way it is,” David Foster Wallace wrote in 1993, “simply because people tend to be really similar in their vulgar and prurient and stupid interests and wildly different in their refined and moral and intelligent interests.”

I like that quotation because beneath the surface are swimming all the cultural demons with whom Wallace liked to …