Identify a David Foster Wallace short story

October 28, 2008 1:48 PM

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.

posted by hugo to writing & language (3 comments total)

I don't recognise the piece, but this DFW bibliography and list of uncollected works should help you track it down.
posted by zamboni at 2:10 PM on October 28, 2008

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

http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/w/wallace-fun.html
posted by icarus at 4:07 PM on October 28, 2008