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David Foster Wallace, the late author of ‘Infinite Jest’, a book that’s many contradictory things: self-aware and indulgent, thoughtful and ostentatious, sentimental and nasty, deeply personal and ...

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Books can be difficult to teach for several reasons. They can be too stuffy, profane, archaic, mundane or pretentious. There are many students who would happily banish novels like these from their ...

This essay and interview appear in this week’s The Book Pages newsletter. For more information and book coverage, sign up for the free newsletter. Years ago, I taught English as a Second Language at a ...