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LIVING TOGETHER IN CAMBRIDGE IN 1989, David Foster Wallace and longtime friend Mark Costello discovered that they shared “an uncomfortable, somewhat furtive, and distinctively white enthusiasm for a certain music called rap / hip-hop.” The book they wrote together, set against the legendary Boston music scene, mapped the bipolarities of rap and pop, rebellion and acceptance, glitz and gangsterdom. Signifying Rappers issued a fan’s challenge to the giants of rock writing, Greil Marcus, Robert Palmer, and Lester Bangs: Could the new street beats of 1989 set us free, as rock had always promised? First published in 1990, Signifying Rappers is a rare record of a city and a summer by two great thinkers, writers, and friends. This long-awaited new edition features a preface by Mark Costello recalling his friendship with David Foster Wallace and their remarkable experience writing together. Mark Costello is the author of two novels, including the National Book Award finalist Big If. He lives in New York City. David Foster Wallace is the author of the novels The Pale King, Infinite Jest, and The Broom of the System and the story collections Oblivion, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, and Girl with Curious Hair. His nonfiction includes Both Flesh and Not, Consider the Lobster, A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, Everything and More, and This Is Water. He died in 2008.

Playing time: 5½ hrs Copyright 𝖢𝖢 1990 by Mark Costello and David Foster Wallace. Preface 𝖢𝖢 2013 by Mark Costello. All rights reserved. In accordance with the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, the duplicating, uploading, and electronic sharing of any part of this audiobook without the permission of the publisher is unlawful piracy and theft of the author’s intellectual property. If you would like to use material from the book (other than for review purposes), prior written permission must be obtained by contacting the publisher at [email protected]. Thank you for your support of the author’s rights. 𝖯𝖯 2013 by Hachette Audio. All rights reserved. A division of Hachette Book Group, 237 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10017.

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