Stuart Dybek’s 2003 short story collection “I Sailed with Magellan.”
When I think back on the authors who ruined me as a writer, there was that postrecession era after 2008 where, like a lot of other Millennial men, I had the experience of reading David Foster Wallace’s nonfiction essays for the first time and seeing the voice inside my head printed on the page. I got really wowed, and unfortunately this produced a period of heavy ironic footnoting for a short while…
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