Adam Levin Reads David Foster Wallace

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  This is the New Yorker Fiction Podcast from The New Yorker Magazine.

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  I'm Deborah Treisman, fiction editor at The New Yorker.

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  Each month, we invite a writer to choose a story from the magazine's archives to read and discuss.

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  This month, we're going to hear Backbone by David Foster Wallace,

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  which appeared in The New Yorker in March of 2011.

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  Nor was it ever established precisely why this boy had devoted himself to the goal of being able to press his lips to every square inch of his own body.

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  It is not clear even that he conceived of the goal as an achievement in any conventional sense.

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  The story was chosen by Adam Levin, who is the author of four books of fiction,

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  including the novels Bubblegum from 2020 and Mount Chicago from 2022.

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  Hi, Adam.

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  Hi, Deborah.

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  So tell me about you and David Foster Wallace.

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  Are you a longtime admirer?

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  Yes, I would say very much so.

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  I decided I wanted to, you know, write seriously before I'd read him.

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  But I think he was one of the first two or three writers who after I had decided that I really went to.

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  It was like, I came at fiction kind of an out of order.

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  I wasn't an English student really.

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  And it was, I sort of came to him and Philip Roth at the same time.

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  Interesting combination.

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