Welcome to Bookmarker!

This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

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the timeliness of Girl with Curious Hair

I am reminded of the book's timeliness every time I teach it to 21st century undergraduates. Though they are properly dazzled by its mixture of high-tech literariness, pop-culture savvy, and story-telling brio, they are frankly bewildered by the book's urgency and sense of mission, Wallace's author…

—p.28 Sonora Review DFW Tribute Heading Westward (28) by Marshall Boswell
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brio

they are properly dazzled by its mixture of high-tech literariness, pop-culture savvy, and story-telling brio

on GCH

—p.28 Heading Westward (28) by Marshall Boswell
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coterie

the small coterie of devoted David Foster Wallace obsessives from that period

—p.28 Heading Westward (28) by Marshall Boswell
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the singular struggle why/dfw

But where David Foster Wallace became singular, in my opinion, where David Foster Wallace transcended all the postmodern games and became flat out heroic--that was the point where he took these structures and took all those superb toys from his playground and applied them to nothing less than the…

—p.26 Recollection (23) by Charles Bock