Oblivion: Stories

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Oblivion: Stories (2004) is a collection of short stories by the American author David Foster Wallace. The stories, in the order they appeared in the book, are:

• "Mister Squishy", originally published as "Mr. Squishy" in McSweeney's #5 (2000), under the pseudonym Elizabeth Klemm
• "The Soul Is Not a Smithy", originally published in AGNI #57 (2003)
• "Incarnations of Burned Children", originally published in Esquire (November 2000)
• "Another Pioneer", originally published in The Colorado Review (Summer 2001)
• "Good Old Neon", originally published in Conjunctions #37 (November 2001)
• "Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature", originally published, in slightly edited form, as "Yet Another Example of the Porousness of Certain Borders (VIII)" in McSweeney's #1 (1998)
• "Oblivion"
• "The Suffering Channel"

[edit] Critical reception

The book received positive reviews from critics. The review aggregator Metacritic reported the book had an average score of 68 out of 100, based on 22 reviews.^[1]

[edit] References

• Goerlandt, Iannis. "'Still steaming as its many arms extended': Pain in David Foster Wallace's Incarnations of Burned Children." Sprachkunst 37.2 (2006), 297-308.