Unfashionable Discourse

    I came home tonight to find the new Atlantic waiting for me on the kitchen table.  This is usually among my favorite days of the month.  Every time I open a new issue, it’s like running down the stairs on Christmas morning.  Today was even better, however, because the cover boasts an article by the beloved David Foster Wallace, author of the notoriously huge and incredibly footnoted (and don’t skip ‘em, that’s where the funniest bits be) "Infinite Jest."  The topic?  To quote the cover "Deep DEEP DEEP into the mercenary world of take-no-prisoners political talk radio."  Holy Crap.  Sweet. 
    I opened the issue to find a dizzying collection of sideboxes and 26 pages of (mostly) uninterrupted (by ads, that is) paragraphs.  The scattery layout is something I’ve never seen in the Atlantic, and it figures. Foster Wallace is among the most exciting and innovative of the modern writers I’ve read, and he don’t seem afraid to fuck with your paradigms.
     Pardon me now while I read.  Go buy your Atlantic and see me next week, or better yet, buy "Infinite Jest" and see me next year.

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