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George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University
When Blue realizes Hamal's strange ability may be putting him in danger
English muffins
Trapped by his opium addiction
in a beat-up cooler by the muddy river
Oblivion: Stories: Stories United States George Saunders has been teachingIn the stories that make up Oblivion, David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self consciousness a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his. These are worlds undreamt of by any other mind. Only David Foster Wallace could convey a father's desperate loneliness by way of his son's daydreaming through a teacher's homicidal breakdown ("The Soul Is Not a Smithy"). Or could explore the deepest and most