In this episode we talk with Wallace scholar Rob Short. We discuss everything from AA & recovery to William James and summer camp. You can follow Rob on twitter and academia.edu here:https://twitter.com/vismeainlaborehttp://florida.academia.edu/RobShort Show Notes Urine trouble? You’re in luck! - Rob’s academic background – Wallace’s interview with SPEAK magazine – Rob’s paper at the 2014 DFW Conference – The idea of “worshipping” – Readers at academic conferences – The obtuseness of Derrida – Glenn K. – “To impress people when you are 24” – Teaching Wallace - DFW’s early publishing history & audience – David Markson – Wallace’s inter-novel period – Rob’s dissertation’s structure – William James – The rhetoric of AA – How Don Gately goes straight – Zadie Smith on DFW – Catholics by Brian Moore – Personal religion stuff – United Church of Canada and atheism– Post-secular society – A spectrum of salvation/hope - Addicts are throwaway people – “Use” and usefulness - Rote discipline and routine – Wallace at Le Conversazioni http://robshort.org/files/Le_Conversazioni_2006.mp4 - Eternal thanks to Parquet Courts, David C. Jensen, and Robyn O’Neil … and You of course.