http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/12/04/dave-eggers-vs-dave-eggers/ Behind the Book Reviews--The Official Blog of Booklist Online Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:23:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/12/04/dave-eggers-vs-dave-eggers/comment-page-1/#comment-1474 Likely Stories » Blog Archive » Regrets and Reversals Wed, 06 Dec 2006 18:22:23 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2006/12/04/dave-eggers-vs-dave-eggers/#comment-1474 [...] The Sunday before last, the Chicago Tribune’s critics offered a number of critical reversals–”revisions and reassessments” of works they’d previously panned or praised. It’s a topic I’d been meaning to write about myself, and I’d been mulling it over for a few days when I stumbled across the Eggers vs. Eggers controversy–Eggers’ striking change of heart regarding David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. Second thoughts seem to be on our minds as we approach the end of the year. [...] [...] The Sunday before last, the Chicago Tribune’s critics offered a number of critical reversals–”revisions and reassessments” of works they’d previously panned or praised. It’s a topic I’d been meaning to write about myself, and I’d been mulling it over for a few days when I stumbled across the Eggers vs. Eggers controversy–Eggers’ striking change of heart regarding David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. Second thoughts seem to be on our minds as we approach the end of the year. [...]

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