A Typhoon of Ideas: The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace

The Broom of the System
by David Foster Wallace
Reviewed by Derek Harmening

Zadie Smith ( White Teeth , NW ) said of David Foster Wallace: “He's so modern he's in a different time-space continuum from the rest of us.  Goddamn him.”  And maybe it’s best to keep that in mind while trying to wrap your head around his debut novel, The Broom of the System , a typhoon of ideas about language, identity, and purpose bound to make any fiction you read thereafter take on dimensions of meaning you’d...