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Article: Girl with Curious Hair.(Review)
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- Harper's Magazine
- Article date:
- August 1, 1999
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Girl with Curious Hair, by David Foster Wallace. Norton, 1989. Paperback: Norton, 1996. 376 pages. $12.
The American short story--an expression we can use with some degree of domestic pride, as when referring to jazz or liberty--has entered a strange phase in its history. To examine the record of story collections published over this last decade, of money paid for them, of reviews received by them, and, most particularly, of magazine outlets for them, is to conclude that the form is in a long twilight, that it has descended sharply from the flash, the good money, and the cultural regard it had under the influence of Hemingway and Fitzgerald in the 1930s, again in ...
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