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March062009

David Foster Wallace, Background Hummingbird

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Martin Schneider writes:

Reading about David Foster Wallace's researches into the U.S. tax code makes me think that Wallace conformed better to Ian McEwan's ideal of the scientist-novelist than McEwan does.

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