Why I Will Be Watching the David Foster Wallace Movie
This Friday, nerds and friends of nerds in the vicinity of “select theaters” will finally have to decide whether or not they are willing to go see The End of the Tour, the movie covering the days...
View ArticleStraight Outta Normal: Six Thoughts on the David Foster Wallace Movie
Last Friday, the New York Times Sunday Styles page published “A Brief History of the Tough Star Profile,” reviewing notable celebrity press takedowns from Lillian Ross’ 1950 New Yorker piece on Ernest...
View ArticleInfinite Jest 20th Anniversary Cover Revealed
Last year, the publishers of Infinite Jest asked readers to give it a new look for the book’s 20th anniversary in 2016. Here is the winning design, chosen by a panel that included Karen Green,...
View ArticleHITTING SHELVES #28 ½: Infinite Jest 20th Anniversary Edition
The 20th Anniversary edition of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest is now for sale. The updated cover is the result of a reader contest, and has been the subject of some controversy. Unfortunately,...
View ArticleAmerica This is Quite Serious: What Just Happened Was the Easy Part
I began this series with the declaration “Politics sucks.” Boy was I right. If you’ve been anywhere near the internet lately, you’ve already heard what others have to say about racism, sexism, coastal...
View ArticleConsidering the Lobster with Dahsan
photo: Alex Schwartzman instagram.com/alschwa Even when I’m not reading him, I hear him. If I’m somewhere that seems peculiar for reasons I can’t immediately pinpoint, like the oilfields of North...
View ArticleYEAR OF DAVID FOSTER WALLACE
“…THOSE THINGS OF BEAUTY, HIS WONDERFUL WORKS, WHICH I HAD ONCE CONTRIVED TO FIT INTO THAT INFIRM AND SACRED FRAME, THAT DWELLING I HAD LOVINGLY CONSTRUCTED LIKE A TEMPLE EXPRESSLY DESIGNED TO HOLD...
View ArticleYEAR OF DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Pt. 1
David Foster Wallace would have had his 50th birthday on February 21, 2012. If he had lived, and maintained the course he was on, he probably would have been the subject of articles about “David...
View ArticleYEAR OF DAVID FOSTER WALLACE Pt. 2
So much happened in the first half of 2012/YEAR OF DAVID FOSTER WALLACE that it turns out I missed a few things. On 21 February, Wallace’s birthday, Berfrois ran “The Depressed Person in The Marriage...
View ArticleSt. George (Saunders)
Serves me right for reading a puff piece on a writer whose work I actually enjoy and admire, but I can’t help feeling uneasy about the New York Times Magazine cover story on George Saunders. It’s a...
View ArticleDFW, PTA, FA and Emerson College
The story about Paul Thomas Anderson having a conversation with David Foster Wallace is making the rounds of the nerdiest parts of the internet today. The story, which was told on Marc Maron’s WTF...
View ArticleInfinite Respect
Our friend and royalty-earning author Michael Moats (“The Real Holden Caulfield”) has some advice about how to describe the famously indescribable Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster...
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