September 16, 2008 – 11:47 pm
From Dave Eggers’ recollections of David Foster Wallace, published in McSweeney’s thread of memories of David Foster Wallace: “There’s something very strange and uniquely powerful about meeting a guy whose writing you find world-changing but who also comes from your part of the world—and who seems exactly like someone who would have come from your [...]
September 15, 2008 – 11:49 am
From Slate’s What Would David Foster Wallace Make of McCain 2008: “‘[T]he likeliest reason why so many of us care so little about politics,’ Wallace writes, ‘is that modern politicians make us sad, hurt us deep down in ways that are hard even to name, much less talk about. It’s way easier to roll your [...]
September 14, 2008 – 12:31 pm
From NY Times’s David Foster Wallace, Postmodern Writer, Is Found Dead: “David Foster Wallace, whose darkly ironic novels, essays and short stories garnered him a large following and made him one of the most influential writers of his generation, was found dead in his California home on Friday, after apparently committing suicide, the authorities said.”
January 16, 2007 – 10:25 am
There’s a thing you have to do on page one of a 1,079 page novel. It’s the same thing you have to do on page 58, page 247, page 496, and even on page 1,078. According to the tennis coach in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, it’s the same thing you have to do on [...]
The San Antonio Current has a short interview with David Foster Wallace. This is what he says about the recent flood of memoir writings: “Marketing writers as people is like a low-budget reality TV — or celeb-reality. It’s, well, it’s a very shrewd use of publishing’s very limited advertising dollars. But there is stuff about [...]
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