Short-a-Day: David Foster Wallace's "Lyndon" by Aaron Riccio

Originally published in Girl With Curious Hair. Personal enjoyment rating (out of 100): 22.[Continuing the countdown to whenever my copy of The Pale King arrives from Shipping Limbo.] An odd semi-history of a story that doesn't feel like Wallace at all, mainly because so much of the story is spent dealing, in a straightforward fashion, with a sidelong depiction of the actual Lyndon B. Johnson, through the eyes of an …

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