Identify a David Foster Wallace short story
October 28, 2008 1:48 PM Subscribe
Please help me identify/find this David Foster Wallace (very) short story.
By short I mean like 300 words. It's about 2 couples, one half of whom used to date. They all plan to go away for a weekend, and then for various reasons the two who didn't formerly date can't go, but they both tell the first two to still keep the reservation because it'd be stupid not to and we're all adults &c &c. The title (or last line) is something like "People really are stupid."
I think it was in the Atlantic or somewhere similar, during a regular column that was always very short.
By short I mean like 300 words. It's about 2 couples, one half of whom used to date. They all plan to go away for a weekend, and then for various reasons the two who didn't formerly date can't go, but they both tell the first two to still keep the reservation because it'd be stupid not to and we're all adults &c &c. The title (or last line) is something like "People really are stupid."
I think it was in the Atlantic or somewhere similar, during a regular column that was always very short.
Not sure if the following link has what you're looking for, but shortly after his suicide Harper's magazine re-posted a collection of his previously published works.
posted by tristero at 3:11 PM on October 28, 2008
posted by tristero at 3:11 PM on October 28, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/w/wallace-fun.html
posted by icarus at 4:07 PM on October 28, 2008
posted by icarus at 4:07 PM on October 28, 2008
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posted by zamboni at 2:10 PM on October 28, 2008