Why I Love Being the Stranger at the Party
There are a number of ways to end up at a party you weren’t invited to.
party
My biography on David Foster Wallace took me six years. Oh, did you interview my first wife, M—? They dated before we married.
was
not guilty.
Associate Editor at Electric Literature's Recommended Reading. General fantasist.
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