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

Originally published in Girl with Curious Hair. Personal enjoyment rating (out of 100): 94.When it comes down to media, particularly television -- or video in general -- and the ways in which it was influencing (and would influence) culture, David Foster Wallace was a genius writer. You can see this in his essays (from David Lynch to John McCain) and throughout Infinite Jest, whose essays on the rise-and-fall of the …

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