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... See moreNeil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Welty’s “Why I Live at the P.O.” to illustrate the unreliable narrator
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
in a wholly racialized society, there is no escape from racially inflected language,
Toni Morrison • Playing in the Dark
language that can powerfully evoke and enforce hidden signs of racial superiority, cultural hegemony, and dismissive “othering”
Toni Morrison • Playing in the Dark
(Rural Illinois’ complete lack of ethnic identity creates a kind of postmodern embarrassment of riches—foods of every culture and creed become our own, quick-fried and served on cardboard and consumed on foot.)
David Foster Wallace • A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
his logic for maximum effectiveness,
Jay Rubin • The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel (Vintage International)
At the same time, he argued, the desire to attract and satisfy students as though they are mere customers leads to academic coddling, in the form of easy grades and expensive facilities and entertainments, such as intercollegiate athletic teams.