Reviews tagging 'Fatphobia'

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments by David Foster Wallace

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adventurous challenging funny medium-paced

4.5

Another excellent collection. The title essay is a sumptuous meal of vicarious discomfort, and the David Lynch analysis is some of the best I’ve encountered. Also fun is the essay on the 1993 Illinois State Fair, but it loses a lot of good favor on DFW’s (at least self-aware) classist elitism and his (unwarranted, repellent, really off-putting) fatphobia. The tennis essays I couldn’t muster feeling for, and two others on TV and the death of the author sort of buzzed around my head but never quite landed. My brain feels truly too simple for real literature, so DFW’s nonfiction will always win out for me. But in terms of the winding, wonky, neurotically focused Long-Form Essay, nobody does it better.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fatphobia