A review by wordmaster
Girl With Curious Hair: Stories by Robert Petkoff, David Foster Wallace

4.0

'Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way' is gorgeous, and genius. It left me reeling, rapturous, awed not by the man writing (DFW sure did repeat himself an awful lot, didn't he? Midwestern horizons and thunderstorms and heads that get in the way and tennis tennis tennis) but awed by his craft, awed by the potency of the effect a particularly skillful arrangement of words has on me, and how thrilling it is to be swept away by words and how cerebral to be reminded of those very same words' inability to do what they just seemed to do. It's art, dagnabit, and it moved me.

5 stars.

There are other stories in here, too.