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✅ "Big Red Son"
✅ "Certainly the End of Something or Other, One Would Sort of Have to Think"
The best essays in this collection so far have been DFW's book reviews. I've never read (nor do I plan to read) John Updike, but DFW's review of "Toward the End of Time" is so thorough, scathing, and funny that it's well worth reading/listening to w/o having read the book.
— Jun 12, 2026 05:58AM
✅ "Certainly the End of Something or Other, One Would Sort of Have to Think"
The best essays in this collection so far have been DFW's book reviews. I've never read (nor do I plan to read) John Updike, but DFW's review of "Toward the End of Time" is so thorough, scathing, and funny that it's well worth reading/listening to w/o having read the book.
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2. “How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart": Perhaps the best sports essay i’ve ever read and certainly the best book review. Funny enough, the thesis of this essay applies best to hockey despite never being mentioned. I feel Connor McDavid can only be understood in the context of this essay.
— Jun 06, 2026 03:42PM
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1. “Consider the Lobster”: well written but stupid. a attempted moral argument that says (in a roundabout “i’m not saying anything” way) that eating lobsters may be bad b/c they have a nervous system & feel pain. Despite being absurdly long, it shies away from such questions as “what is bad?” & “what is good?” until the final paragraph, when it says such questions are beyond the purview of the essay
— Jun 06, 2026 03:37PM
