“He Made You Love The Way Americans Talk” – Lev Grossman Reflects on David Foster Wallace

TIME magazine's book critic calls David Foster Wallace a literary ventriloquist who captured the spoken speech of Americans more accurately, hilariously and lovingly than any other writer. 

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