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10 Novels That Will Sharpen Your Mind

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Yay! Books ARE good for you! Hooray for books!

(this article is from Scientific American)

23 Free Essays & Stories by David Foster Wallace on the Web

• “9/11: The View From the Midwest” (Rolling Stone, October 25, 2001)
• “All That” (New Yorker, December 14, 2009)
• “An Interval” – (New Yorker, January 30, 1995)
• “Asset” - (New Yorker, January 30, 1995)
• “Backbone,” An Excerpt from The Pale King (New Yorker, March 7, 2011)
• “Brief Interviews with Hideous Men” (The Paris Review, Fall 1997)
• “Consider the Lobster” (Gourmet, August 2004)
• “David Lynch Keeps His Head” (Premiere, 1996)
• “Everything is Green” (Harpers, September 1989)
• “E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction” (The Review of Contemporary Fiction, June 22, 1993)
• “Federer as Religious Experience” – New York Times, August 20, 2006)
• “Good People” (New Yorker, February 5, 2007)
• “Host” (The Atlantic, April 2005)
• “Incarnations of Burned Children” (Esquire, April 21, 2009)
• “Laughing with Kafka” (Harper’s, January 1998)
• “Little Expressionless Animals” (The Paris Review, Spring 1988)
• On Life and Work (Kenyon College Commencement address, 2005)
• “Rabbit Resurrected” (Harper’s, August 1992)
• “Several Birds” (New Yorker, June 17, 1994)
• “Shipping Out: On the (nearly lethal) comforts of a luxury cruise” (Harper’s, January 1996)
• “Tennis, Trigonometry, Tornadoes: A Midwestern Boyhood” – (Harper’s, December 1991)
• “Tense Present: Democracy, English, and the wars over usage“ (Harper’s, April 2001)
• “The Awakening of My Interest in Annular Systems” (Harper’s, September 1993)
• “The Compliance Branch“ (Harper’s, February 2008)
• “The Depressed Person” (Harper’s, January 1998)
• “The String Theory” (Esquire, July 1996)
• “The Weasel, Twelve Monkeys And The Shrub” – (Rolling Stone, April 2000)
• “Ticket to the Fair” - (Harper’s, July 1994)
• “Wiggle Room” - (New Yorker, March 9, 2009)