The women of McSweeney's
Elissa Bassist, motivated by a Christopher Hitchens query about women being less funny than men, collects a whole bunch of writing by women from McSweeney's.
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Elissa Bassist, motivated by a Christopher Hitchens query about women being less funny than men, collects a whole bunch of writing by women from McSweeney's.
Writing for The Rumpus, Elissa Bassist annotated D.T. Max's article about David Foster Wallace with links to mentioned books, articles, etc. (thx, matt)
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