NP: DFW

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davemarc wrote:
> 
> Murthy Yenamandra writes of David Foster Wallace:
> 
> > Well, for one, the guy insists on using his middle name, which we all
> > know is just a pretension to grandiosity and an open invitation to
> > acronymize.
> 
> Now just hold on there.  Maybe he just doesn't want to be confused with
> other David Wallaces
> 
> murthy davemarc yenamandra

then there's poor stephen wright, one of the best writers alive
(meditations in green, m31, going native, and an unfinished BIG NOVEL
about the civil war--hmmm...wonder if he wishes he put it out before
m&d)