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Reviewer David Kipen celebrated Wallace’s “stupendously high-toned vocabulary and gleeful low-comedy diction, coupled with a sense of syntax so elongated that he can seem to go for days without surfacing.”

We are in an age of gleeful disruption, particularly as we witness Silicon Valley strategies and the tearing down of the federal government.

President Donald Trump has moved beyond "American carnage," leaving the nihilistic outlook of his first term behind in favor of gleeful bullying and childish name-calling.

So, when the Trump administration arrived with its almost gleeful slash-and-burn crusade against the federal workforce, he was stunned and heartbroken to be swept up in it.

But one way to see it is as a series of gleeful violations of consent, courtesy of some of the worst people in the world.