That Foster Wallace essay is great: when he was good, he was really very good, and that's one of his better pieces. Milan Kundera's Testaments Betrayed is pret

That Foster Wallace essay is great: when he was good, he was really very good, and that's one of his better pieces. Milan Kundera's Testaments Betrayed is pretty excellent as well; the last chapter (and title) cover Brod not burning Kafka's papers, and then manufacturing tortured genius Kafka instead of sticking with the fairly ridiculous reality (the one that actually matches how his characters behave, as this posted essay describes)