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David Foster Wallace’s Childhood Viking Poem

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Lincoln Michel


Lincoln Michel’s fiction and criticism appear in The Oxford American, The Believer, NOON, Mississippi Review, Bookforum, and elsewhere. He is a co-editor of Gigantic magazine and ...
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vikingpoem David Foster Wallaces Childhood Viking PoemThe Henry Ransom Center, part of the University of Texas at Austin, has recently acquired David Foster Wallace’s archive. The archive, which you can read about here, surely includes a lot of amazing finds for Wallace fans, but my favorite so far is this Viking Poem written when David Foster Wallace was around six years old. More info at the New Yorker book bench.

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