Fictional Fun

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April 03, 2005

There’s no writer who’s hipper, more self-consciously knowing, than David Foster Wallace.  But even he can take only so much ironic hipness.  He says it is relentlessly corrosive to the soul. In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, assessing the state of fiction, with David Foster Wallace and other writers.

Deborah Treisman and George Saunders on The New Yorker

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Deborah Treisman is fiction editor of The New Yorker magazine. George Saunders is one of her star writers. Treisman and Saunders join Steve Paulson to talk about writing and publishing short stories.

Elliot Perlman on "Seven Types of Ambiguity"

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Elliot Perlman is a Barrister in his native Australia. He’s also the author of a novel called “Seven Types of Ambiguity,” told by seven different narrators.

Jennifer Weiner on Chick Lit

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Jennifer Weiner is one of the star authors of chick lit and she’s made her peace with having a less-than-Ivy-League literary reputation, despite her Princeton education.

Our final conversation with David Foster Wallace

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Over the years, we did several interviews with Wallace himself. The last was in 2004, about his collection of short stories — "Oblivion." It’s an interview that’s been collected in two Wallace anthologies.

Length: 
11:34
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July 30, 2006
Guests: 

Deborah Treisman

Elliot Perlman

Jennifer Weiner

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David Foster Wallace

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Categories: 
Culture
Literature
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