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David Foster Wallace

Speaking of David Foster Wallace (see below; he's one of my favorite, relatively established young authors ... if by "young" you can mean someone close to my age, but since I'm a postmodernist, I can be relativist about this), I found this student review of David Foster Wallace as a professor at RateMyProfessors.com. I've browsed RMP several times, hoping my students would make public how much they hate me (to no avail), and because a Clarkson alumnus purportedly is one of the developers of the site. This has to be one of the most bizarre reviews I've read at RMP, in many respects.

Only one review, but it sort of captures the whole archetype of "twisted and problematic genius" (something I've always aspired to ... I've got "twisted" and "problematic" down, but I'm still struggling with "genius.") Posted by johndan at September 22, 2004 10:00 PM | TrackBack