December 2012
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Rare DFW Photo
Image source:
http://www.lundici.it/2012/12/la-pagina-della-cover-writer-infinite-jest-di-david-foster-wallace/
June 2011
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April 2011
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But the whole dark genius of corporations is that they allow for individual...
– David Foster Wallace, The Pale King [2011] (via idiotlanguage)
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The Pale King illustrations
http://erasingdreamland.tumblr.com/
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A fun little game.
First page of my book. what do you think? -Yahoo Answers
“Think for a second - what if all the infinitely dense and shifting worlds of stuff inside you every moment of your life turned out now to be somehow fully open and expressible afterward, after what you think of as you has died, because what if afterward now each moment itself is an infinite sea or span or passage of time in which to express it or convey it, and you don’t even need any...
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DFW Endnotes Generator
David Foster Wallace Endnotes Generator
http://mediumdeadly.tumblr.com/dfwallace
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But young adults of the nineties - who got to watch all this brave new...
– David Foster Wallace (via maxistentialist)
This one’s from DFW’s essay on John Updike from Consider The Lobster, which originally appeared on The New York Observer.
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I understand that he was apparently depressed, but that wasn’t the only...
– a former student on David Foster Wallace, from this article, which made me cry. (via duckstreet)
March 2011
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Don't Miss This Event
thepalekingevent:
PEN Center USA proudly presents:
THE PALE KING: monologues from the unfinished novel by David Foster Wallace April 28, 2011, 7pm, at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills
Tickets are $65 with a first edition of The Pale King and preferred seating. $25 for admission only.
For more information, visit our website.
Hey there fellow DFW fans in the Los Angeles area/Southern...
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The Pale King, an unfinished manuscript that will be published this month by...
– Benjamin Alsup for Esquire (via maxistentialist)
maxistentialist strikes again.
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Exclusive: The First Lines of David Foster... →
irunfrombears:
The Millions has the first lines of The Pale King on their site today.
When David Foster Wallace killed himself in 2008, he left behind an unfinished manuscript and a number of fragments that, with the efforts of his long-time editor Michael Pietsch, has become The Pale King, to be released next month amid the high expectations of the late writer’s many fans. The book’s...
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The Last Book I Loved: Oblivion by David Foster...
By Sam Cooney
David Foster Wallace is a dead white male American writer who will become more and more famous and revered over the next few years.1 This is as close as a futurefact as you can get. Already you can refer to him as DFW and know that you will be okay: either people will know who you are talking about and nod their head (literally or inwardly) or they won’t know who you are...
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February 2011
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lazenby:
Here’s the first big documentary on David Foster Wallace since his suicide. Interviewed are: DFW (archived), Don DeLillo, Rick Moody, Mark Costello, Michael Pietsch, Bonnie Nadell and Amy Wallace.
Originally aired on Radio 3, February 6th, 2011. Runtime: 45:04.
Not available in the US.
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Mario’d fallen in love with the first Madam Psychosis programs because he felt...
– David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest. (via som-nambulist)
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Happy 15th, Infinite Jest
irunfrombears:
Today marks the 15th anniversary of the debut of Infinite Jest. Today is going to be IJ spam, just so you all know.
Didn’t know. Thank you :)
We’re* halfway through our third read and loving every page, every word of it.
* The editorial “We”.
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Our Psychic Living Room - An Article on DFW
“Two years have now passed since the death of David Foster Wallace in the fall of 2008. His legacy as a writer has been the subject of nonstop debate since the day of his suicide. I’ll cut to the chase: I believe he was, in his own way, a literary genius. Let me explain why.”
So begins a new article by Rebekah Frumkin on David Foster Wallace. Check it out :)
Sorry for the...
December 2010
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New Slate Article on David Foster Wallace →
“To understand the fiction of David Foster Wallace, it helps to have a little Wittgenstein.”
(Thanks for the link: four5six)
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WSJ Journal Piece: David Foster Wallace as... →
modernrambler:
A nice little background piece on how “Fate, Time and Language” got published.
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