“Enthralling . . . Something to Do with Paying Attention has the spirit of [Wallace’s] best non-fiction . . . You open [the] text and it wakes. What is alive in it passes to the living. His attention becomes our attention.” —Patricia Lockwood, London Review of Books
David Foster Wallace’s last unfinished work, a wise and unexpected tour de force “using the IRS the way Borges used the library and Kafka used the law-courts building: as an analogy for the world.” —John Jeremiah Sullivan, GQ
David Foster Wallace
Foreword by Sarah McNally
“Enthralling . . . Something to Do with Paying Attention has the spirit of [Wallace’s] best non-fiction . . . You open [the] text and it wakes. What is alive in it passes to the living. His attention becomes our attention.” —Patricia Lockwood, London Review of Books
David Foster Wallace’s last unfinished work, a wise and unexpected tour de force “using the IRS the way Borges used the library and Kafka used the law-courts building: as an analogy for the world.” —John Jeremiah Sullivan, GQ