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I agree with the comments about his essays, like the tennis essay and the Consider the Lobster recommendation, and I'll add another piece of short fiction, Incarnations of Burned Children: https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a500/incarnation...

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Incarnations of Burned Children is horrifying. Which, I suppose, is the intent. But not for the faint of heart.

A recommendation for IoBC should come with a strong warning. It is a extremely short piece but, word for word, one of the most hard-hitting and distressing things I’ve read.

It’s a testament to DFW’s talents as a writer to get so much impact out of so few words but it’s an incredibly tough piece of writing to recommend. Especially if you have young children.

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