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Wallace's later, more prolix argument about pop culture's successful co-opting of postmodern self-reflexivity and irony

Though the Dirty Realists had been referencing pop culture artifacts for years, their approach was primarily in the form of semiotic shorthand.

the piece is set in a writing workshop, about which more anon

took similar umbrage in the pages of Harper's

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