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Read a Line-by-Line Breakdown of David Foster Wallace’s ‘Backbone’ Edits

The New York Times Magazine’s 6th Floor Blog points us to this comparison of a 2000 DFW story draft with its finished version (published in last week’s New Yorker). File it away for your next long read; it’s interesting.

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Read a Line-by-Line Breakdown of David Foster Wallace’s ‘Backbone’ Edits