david foster wallace: classic or dud

guess undeniably was the wrong adverb to use

heh. yeah. undeniably owned.

http://www.samplereality.com/2009/07/19/the-truth-behind-jay-murray-siskinds-review-of-david-foster-wallace/

hey guys, i'm trying to find an essay written by a woman who taught a class on david foster wallace after he died. i think she's a professor at the same college he taught at and the article talked about the temptation of reading too much of his life in the work. does anyone have the link? i'm not having any luck here.

look at infinitesummer.org -- I think she did a blog post there about teaching the class

Kathleen Fitzpatrick, is that who you're looking for?
http://infinitesummer.org/archives/931

sure is, thanks!

http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek/content/823228?inPopup=true

^^this interview is so great

wow. i'm only like ten minutes in, too.

some great mp3s here incl. old DFW interviews and a long interview with his sister with some funny anecdotes.

where

oh ha

http://www.wpr.org/book/090823a.cfm

cheers, look awes

this is so great.

day before yesterday was driving across central Illinois listening to that WPR show.

It sound so good I'm actually considering taking a break to locate/purchase a USB connection so I can put it on my mp3 player for the walk home.

It's good, wouldn't say magnificent. It really brings home -- or maybe this is done with editing -- how the problem DFW writes about in "E Unibus Pluram" is central to him for twenty-five years afterwards, and in some sense he makes no progress on it.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/briefinterviewswithhideousmen/

features two different law and order spinoff alums!

oh man that looks like shit.

yeah seriously bummed about this probable garbage.

May be of interest only to DFW fans who are also serious tennis fans: tennis journalist/blogger Steve Tignor has been writing a great series of articles about DFW's tennis essays on his blog Concrete Elbow.

This explains much.

Re Alan Lelchuk, quoted in Ned's link: I liked his novel _American Mischief_, which I think has been completely forgotten.

http://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/2665.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_sQrxAorDo

http://quomodocumque.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/wallace-amherst_review-the_planet.pdf

:(

jeez :/

has this been posted before?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwS5pEfcQNk

hardened my resolve 2 retackle infinite jest

Intense essay. Anyone else puzzled by the ending?

this thing?

http://quomodocumque.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/wallace-amherst_review-the_planet.pdf

it's a short story

yeh but it ends kinda

it ends kinda weirdly midsentence, yeah, just like his first book, can't say i'm a fan of it

i like this ending much more than that ending! this one felt coherent and clear and characteristic.

poor dude :(

god, he was 21 when he wrote that

poor dude :(

yeah

Did Brief Interviews with Hideous Men ever get released to theaters?

i think it was released in limited places? This is kind of interesting

There’s a bit of an announcement we’re hoping you can make about Brief Interviews with Hideous Men. Can you tell us about that?
John Krasinski: Hulu’s premiering the movie first on the Internet (after it finishes its run in theaters), so we’re a part of that, and that’s fantastic.

Huh, I guess it's played in NYC, L.A., and Boston, and is scheduled for Philadelphia and Austin this weekend. Weird that it never made it to Chicago. But I'd just as soon watch it on Hulu, anyway.

yeah it's weird it hasn't made it to DC either, but then again it's only 80 minutes

i think the ending trailing off is referring to his fear that the Bad Thing is really... "you"

as in:
Being far away sort of helps with respect to the Bad Thing. Except that is just highly silly when you consider what I said before concerning the fact that the Bad Thing is really [you.]

I guess didn't feel it was a midsentence ending so much as a defined one that deliberately omitted its last word, for reasons that made sense! Whereas Broom's is all kinds of poncey and irritating.

Has anyone seen the Brief Interviews film? Is it good?

I read this as "considering the fact of what the Bad Thing is, really."
I liked this story. It feels much less contrived than his other fiction. Unless this is actually about him, in which case :(

i have a bad feeling about that brief interviews movie

i'm sure it's mostly bad but i want to see it anyway

^^^exactly

did anyone else read "All That" yet? I read it on the bus this morning, and I enjoyed it a lot. seemed like a perfect blend of story + philosophy.

yeah liked it

havent read it yet, but whats the deal - is it an excerpt from the novel or

yes