Short-a-Day: David Foster Wallace's "The Depressed Person"
From Brief Interviews with Hideous Men. Personal enjoyment rating (out of 100): 75.Here's the most emblematic story of Wallace's c. 2000 fiction-writing style: a clinically written, circuitous, and emphatic third-person narrative about the self-torture that comes from losing an ability to empathize with and trust in the world around oneself. "The depressed person was in terrible and unceasing emotional pain, and the …
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