Television

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Wallace comments at length about the effect that television has on not only American culture but American fiction as well.

Occurrences in Wallace's work

• "My Appearance"
• "The View from Mrs. Thompson's"
• “E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction"
• Tennis Player Michael Joyce's Professional Artistry as a Paradigm of Certain Stuff about Choice, Freedom, Discipline, Joy, Grotesquerie, and Human Completeness
• Infinite Jest