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By Sarah Vowell

Take the Cannoli is a relocating and wickedly humorous selection of own tales stretching around the gigantic panorama of the yankee scene. Hailed through Newsweek as a "cranky stylist with expertise to burn," Vowell has an impossible to resist voice -- caustic and sympathetic, insightful and double-edged -- that has attracted a devoted following for her journal writing and radio monologues in this American Life.

While tackling topics comparable to id, politics, faith, artwork, and historical past, those autobiographical stories are written with a biting humor, putting Vowell solidly within the culture of Mark Twain and Dorothy Parker. Vowell searches the streets of Hoboken for strains of the town's favourite son, Frank Sinatra. She is going less than conceal of heavy make-up in an research of goth tradition, blasts cannonballs right into a hillside on a father-daughter day out, and maps her family's haunted background on a highway journey down the path of Tears.

Take the Cannoli is an eclectic journey of the hot global, a set of alternately hilarious and heartbreaking essays and autobiographical yarns.

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Wallace later told David Lipsky that he “was so in thrall to Barth” that becoming his student would have been “sort of a grotesque thing” (4). 8 Wallace’s “combative classroom manner” (CW 92) meant that, whenever he could, he liked to subvert the “good graduate-workshop story” (GCH 358). On first sight, his break-up tale, “Here and There”—the “only really autobiographical piece” in Girl (Letter to Steven Moore)—seemed a perfect example of an MFA tale; until, that is, we get to the student-professor argument.

1 In 2005, Wallace praised McCarthy’s “ability to use antiquated, ornate English in ways that don’t seem silly or stilted” and said he was under “no illusion” he could do the same (CW 156–57). In 1988, however, he wasn’t so shy. As well as engaging with the literary trends of the 1980s, Wallace also addressed metafiction, a 20-year-old mode that he interrogates most directly in the book’s culminating novella. There he confronts John Barth’s “Lost in the Funhouse,” “American metafiction’s . . most famous story” (GCH 237), and, by using metafictional techniques himself, tries “to expose the illusions of metafiction” (CW 40).

Renamed in “Westward,” for legal reasons, as the East Chesapeake Tradeschool, Johns Hopkins ran a prestigious MFA presided over by John Barth, “Professor Ambrose” in the story. Wallace later told David Lipsky that he “was so in thrall to Barth” that becoming his student would have been “sort of a grotesque thing” (4). 8 Wallace’s “combative classroom manner” (CW 92) meant that, whenever he could, he liked to subvert the “good graduate-workshop story” (GCH 358). On first sight, his break-up tale, “Here and There”—the “only really autobiographical piece” in Girl (Letter to Steven Moore)—seemed a perfect example of an MFA tale; until, that is, we get to the student-professor argument.

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