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Quack This Way: David Foster Wallace & Bryan A. Garner Talk Language and Writing

by Bryan A. Garner
$11.90
Quack This Way: David Foster Wallace & Bryan A. Garner Talk Language and Writing
Quack This Way: David Foster Wallace & Bryan A. Garner Talk Language and Writing

Wallace and Garner, talking words

This volume reproduces a wide-ranging 67-minute interview between David Foster Wallace and Bryan A. Garner. Recorded in February 2006, it was Wallace’s last long interview and his only one devoted exclusively to language and writing.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Quack This Way: David Foster Wallace & Bryan A. Garner Talk Language and Writing

by Bryan A. Garner
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ISBN: 9780991118113
Author: Bryan A. Garner
Publisher: Rosepen Books
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Creative Nonfiction, Biographies & Memoirs
Related Topics: Biography, Pop Culture, Biography Memoir, Essays
Goodreads rating: 4.21
(rated by 1002 readers)

Description

David Foster Wallace was at the center of late-20th-century American literature, Bryan A. Garner at that of legal scholarship and lexicography. It was language that drew them together. The wide-ranging interview reproduced here memorializes 67 minutes of their second and final evening together, in February 2006. It was DFW's last long interview, and the only one devoted exclusively to language and writing.
 

Wallace and Garner, talking words

This volume reproduces a wide-ranging 67-minute interview between David Foster Wallace and Bryan A. Garner. Recorded in February 2006, it was Wallace’s last long interview and his only one devoted exclusively to language and writing.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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