David Foster Wallace on Dumb People

David Foster Wallace is known for his difficult novels and non-fiction, but how does he feel about the tens of thousands of readers who couldn't finish his work (Infinite Jest is considered one of the most unfinished novels ever.) Or people who don't read at all? Today we will hear Wallace make a lengthy statement on the average reader or non-reader, and what the job of a writer is in the new digital world with declining reading rates. I will then adapt Wallace's ideas to the modern era, where distraction, ADHD, and technology have 10X the issues Wallace outlines.

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