![]() ![]() Schmidt leads a focus group that is taste-testing a new chocolate snack, named "Felonies!", while a person free climbs up the building's north face. ![]() The story takes place in November 1995 and follows a focus group in a marketer's conference room as well as the facilitator of the focus group, Terry Schmidt. Squishy" in McSweeney's #5 (2000), under the pseudonym Elizabeth Klemm. "Mister Squishy" was originally published as "Mr.Published in June 2004, the book sold 18,000 hardcover copies in its first year. Much of the editing appears to have been completed by October 2003. Wallace first suggested a new collection of stories to his editor Michael Pietsch in October 2001. The collection's writing overlapped with Wallace's last novel, The Pale King, and many of the stories came from notebooks that he used to write the book and may have begun as sections of it. In the stories, Wallace explores the nature of reality, dreams, trauma, and the "dynamics of consciousness." The story "Good Old Neon" was included in The O. Oblivion is Wallace's third and last short story collection and was listed as a 2004 New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Oblivion: Stories (2004) is a collection of short fiction by the American writer David Foster Wallace. ![]()
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