He wrote Forrest Ashby that he was thinking of moving to Canada to be a high school teacher.

McInerney’s big job now is acting as a custodian for the statue of himself that celebrity has

Jim Deatherage,

“The world is everything that is the case.”11

Omensetter’s Luck, Wittgenstein’s Mistress, and Blood Meridian, but added Jerzy Kosinski’s little-known Steps,

words—Derrida’s famous dictum that “there is nothing outside the text.”

Wallace’s cruise ship piece was about the price of failing to choose well.

Infinite Jest counterposes sincerity and faith against moral lassitude.

“If, in a piece of creative nonfiction, an event is claimed to have happened, it must happen.”