“I didn’t appreciate the continuous use of foul language and sexual dialogue included in nearly every character’s story.” - Rachel Dehning, Manhattan Book Review “ is a sprawling and ambitious force, a mobius strip of fiction whose virtues are impossible to ignore.” - Jared Pollen, 3:AM His words and phrasings are so sharp they risk breaking skin… He is, himself, creating a world on the page out of the energy of his own artistic desire.” - Nathaniel Drenner, Independent Book Review “Hollander is elevated but not esoteric, dense but not impenetrable. To survive Anthropica is to abandon a great many lies we tell ourselves, replacing them with the hauntingly unspeakable facts of our complexity, especially our capacities for love and destruction.” - Dina Peone, The Brooklyn Rail “David Hollander is the only fiction writer I’ve known to take an endlessly illogical premise to its logical end, encoding a totality of vision into every unit of meaning and revealing more about our working sense of reality than some writers of nonfiction. Hollander’s line-by-line writing is syntactically complex, his choices of vocabulary and voice often pyrotechnic.” - Brian Evenson, The LA Review of Books “Anthropica is what David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest might have been had it been about Ultimate Frisbee rather than tennis (and had it been 60 percent shorter). 10 Responses to “David Foster Wallace Provides… Leverage.“This book was very weird to me and I have to say that I didn’t understand any of it.” - Goodreads Reviewer To Steph and me, this resemblance is so eerie that we start to confuse the two.įor example, this is David Foster Wallace beating the crap out of some meth-heads who have kidnapped an innocent woman:Īnd this is Eliot Spencer from Leverage on Charlie Rose: This is Eliot Spencer (played by Christian Kane), a thief whose job description consists of hitting people so hard they stay hit: This is David Foster Wallace, author of Infinite Jest, and generally amazing writer: Leverage gives us that in spades.Īlso, we get to watch David Foster Wallace, author of Infinite Jest, beat the crap out of people. Leverage is one of our favorite shows – when we sit down to watch television, we’re looking for something thrilling and fun, which celebrates the triumph of intellect and romance over brute force and cynicism, as the man says. Steph and I were given seasons 2 and 3 of Leverage for Christmas. Apologies for my absence – trust me when I (and my manuscripts) say, it’s been worth it.
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