Sometimes a kind soul has sprinkled Criterion releases on the shelf too!
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David Foster Wallace’s “Incarnations of Burned Children.”
David Foster Wallace, “Incarnations of Burned Children”
Yes, they are. For a literature class, I taught a very short story, which is expertly written, about an infant who is scalded. It’s a fantastic piece, but something I’d totally expect some people to opt out of given the content.
There were a couple on The Bonfire w/Big Jay Oakerson and Dan Soder that were intentionally rough for laughs. One in particular went from the checkered history of the Elks Lodge charter into a read for Boll and Branch sheets.
Related, I always explained it as “narrative about,” as in a meta-narrative is about the narrative. Same difference as one layer up I suppose.
Graduated a couple years ago with an English PhD: when I go to read anything, I always pick up a pen or pencil as if I’m going to annotate it. I still have to hold one but don't click it out, like a security blanket, otherwise I feel immensely guilty.
Splunge.