David Foster Wallace
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David Foster Wallace was an American writer and professor who published novels, short stories, and essays. He is most widely known for his 1996 novel Infinite Jest. In 2008, David Ulin wrote for the L
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Autographed title page of Infinite Jest
The Broom of the System
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The Broom of the System is the first novel by the American writer David Foster Wallace, published in 1987.
David Foster Wallace
…grew up in Illinois. He graduated from Amherst College and the University of Arizona. His honors thesis at Amherst was adapted into his debut novel The Broom of the System (1987). In his writing, Wallace intentionally avoided tropes of postmodern art such as irony or forms of metafiction, saying in 1990 that they were…
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