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Brent McDonald

@docubrent

Brent McDonald is a senior video journalist at the New York Times.

No. 83: David Foster Wallace on a ticket to the fair

Late summer is carnival season, when fairgrounds across Middle America sprout blooms of creaky steel whirling machines and stands of sugary fried food, jostling us from our languor and threatening…
August 30, 2013
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