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I will freely admit that Wallace's essays about TV and postmodernism flew so far over my head that neither disturbed a single hair, his fish-out-of-water essays are an absolute delight. He walks that line of being witty but not overly unkind to his subjects perfectly. While I'm probably still too daunted to tackle his fiction just yet, this was a good showcase for a lost talent.
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