Daily Archives: February 12, 2014

Marooned In One’s Own Skull

David Foster Wallace, from an 1993 interview with The Review of Contemporary Fiction: I guess a big part of serious fiction’s purpose is to give the reader, who like all of us is sort of marooned in her own skull, … Continue reading

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Bigger Than Phil

Writing in The New Yorker, Adam Gopnik has a typically well-written essay cum book review on various tracts studying atheism’s rise in modernity (“Bigger Than Phil: When did faith start to fade?”) Of the battle between ‘ayes’ (believers) and ‘nays’ … Continue reading

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