According to Wallace, the expectation that art amuses is a ‘poisonous lesson for a would-be artist to grow up with,’ since it places all of the power with the audience, sometimes breeding resentment on the...

But he’d also gotten a personal prickly chill all over from his own thinking. He could do the dextral pain the same way: Abiding. No one single instant of it was unendurable. Here was a...

The reasons that center on others are easy to manipulate. All hollow things are light.

The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism.