David Foster Wallace reads “Big Red Son“ (his 1998 visit to the Adult Video News Expo)
“Big Red Son“ is Wallace’s account of his visit to the AVN Awards, an event that has been dubbed the Academy Awards of pornographic film, and its associated AVN Expo. Originally published in the September 1998 issue of Premiere magazine as “Neither Adult Nor Entertainment“ under the pseudonyms Willem R. deGroot and Matt Rundlet.
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In “Big Red Son”—perhaps the finest essay in “new journalism” since Norman Mailer’s Armies of the Night—Wallace acts as correspondent in Las Vegas throughout the AVN awards by attending the ceremony, visiting the pre-ceremony porn convention in which industry heavyweights and the high-price ticket buying public intermingle and interact, and interviewing several pornographers, porn stars, and porn writers.
“Big Red Son“ was republished in full in Wallace’s essay collection, “Consider the Lobster.“
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