his adumbration of this potential "VIR"--vicious infinite regress

In his antic narrative constructions

I also remember the typical _Harper's_ian epistolary maelstrom that commenced soon after it appeared.

(I still stand by that judgment, though not with nearly the same Manichean fervor)

I would go Visigothic on such people.

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

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

took similar umbrage in the pages of Harper's

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

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