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Short-a-Day: David Foster Wallace's "On His Deathbed, Holding Your Hand, The Acclaimed New Young Off-Broadway Playwright's Father Begs a Boon" by Aaron Riccio

From Brief Interviews with Hideous Men. Personal enjoyment rating (out of 100): 91.My dutifully proud -- wear a mask and your face grows to fit it. Avoid all mirrors as though -- and no, worst, the black irony: now his wife and girls are bewitched this way now as well you see. As his mother -- the art he perfected upon her.Written as a monologue (complete with humorously bleak medical stage directions) from FATHER to…

SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 05:36PM on April 15, 2011

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