For seven days and seven nights in mid-March of 1995, David Foster Wallace took a cruise. He did not have a very good time. The results of the voyage are recorded in “Shipping Out,” an extended essay, framed playfully as an ad for a cruise ship, that ran in Harper’s in early 1996. (It was [...]
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Liner notes: Storytelling with Gordon Lightfoot (yep, that’s right)
Tommy Tomlinson, under the hood
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“Why’s this so good?” No. 75: Dan P. Lee and the father who lost everything
Joe Keohane on withholding information