Sep 19 2008
The String Theory by David Foster Wallace
What happens when all of a man’s intelligence and athleticism is focused on placing a fuzzy yellow ball where his opponent is not? An obsessive inquiry (with footnotes), into the physics and metaphysics of tennis.
A reprint of a 1996 essay from Esquire
Sep 19 2008
If you want to assess David Foster Wallace’s influence, all one need do is look at the mass of links on the fansite, The Howling Fantods. I find the total lack of interest from the televised corporate news media to be the most disturbing and emphatic statement about the value American society places on intellectualism [...]
Sep 16 2008
After writing yesterday’s article, Failure, about the stylistic mistakes and philosophical failures of my book The Vague Terrain, the obvious question is what then. I can hear the voice now, with its heavy Arkansas accent—back to basics. Get back to the fundamentals of not only thinking about writing but thinking/period. Put aside Weathers’ Grammar A/B, [...]
Sep 16 2008
Harper’s has made available in a PDF format every piece of Wallace’s they’ve published.
More links to sites remembering Wallace and his work.
New Links, also to be found over at DFW 1962 - 2008 :
Splicetoday
Bostonist
Radaronline
Last Exit Magazine
Ross and Roll
Antidisingenuousmentarianism
German Media obituaries, I will clean the links up after work (thanks, [...]
Sep 16 2008
One of the more personal obituaries I’ve heard/read these past couple of days, and worth sharing.
Wallace Invented ‘New Style, New Comedy’
Sep 16 2008
News of David Foster Wallace’s death began trickling across the internet Saturday, when it appeared on a few scattered blogs and was confirmed by the LA Times late Saturday night. By the time I received the news on Sunday morning, some one had already put his Wikipedia entry in the past tense. Perhaps this is [...]
Sep 15 2008
I’m going to break one of Umberto Eco cardinal laws by committing the decadent and self-indulgent sin of commenting on what I feel is now a significant failure in my writing career. The Vague Terrain is, at least conceptually, about how memory influences our perception of time, and by time I mean a sequence of [...]
Sep 15 2008
Reprinted from Publisher’s Lunch
On DFW
As covered this weekend, author David Foster Wallace, 46, was found dead in his Claremont, CA home on Friday night, having hanged himself. Pomona College, where he was the Roy E. Disney professor of creative writing at Pomona College, will hold a memorial service.
Little, Brown publisher Michael Pietsch tells the [...]
Sep 14 2008
In memory of David Foster Wallace, 1962-2008
A tribute to the great American novelist who left us a little less alone.
By Laura Miller Sep 14, 2008
Sep 14 2008
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The New Yorker
workingthrough.com
www.stephenschenkenberg.com
NYT Books - Kakutani
Jonathon Goodwin - Responds to Kakutani’s position over time. I couldn’t agree more.
Newsweek
Salon
Celtic-Inca Zine
The Tin Man
The Yankee Pot Roast tribute
Some Came Running - DFW’s editor for the Premiere pieces.
Kittysneezes.com
Lonelysandwich
Matthewingram.com
Digital City