Excluding the layup of anything written by Ayn Rand, what book are you most embarrassed to have loved? Or what book are you proudest of having outgrown?
For me it's a coin toss between SABBATH'S THEATER and any of David Foster Wallace's stuff that I gushed over, save for his essay about Michael Joyce, which still ranks among the best pieces of sportswriting I've ever read
[This post inspired by Patricia Lockwood's 8000 word essay on DFW in this week's London Review of Books]
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