enh, i'd 100% agree with you if it just ended up on the internet without any of the involved parties' consent, but the student putting it up isn't really a dick move imo. chances are that they fucking adored DFW and wanted to show the world that he was a thoughtful and considerate and dedicated instructor. he might have never wanted the world to know that he was a style fairy, but it's not like his legacy (or w/e) is in any diminished by our knowledge that he was!
― nitzer ebbebe (gbx), Friday, 12 March 2010 01:59 (fourteen years ago) link
^^agree with this
we don't really have any evidence that DFW made some sort of kafka-esque declaration before he died (unless someone wants to point me to one)
― but actually it is impossible to have a penis on the body of a mermaid (dyao), Friday, 12 March 2010 02:03 (fourteen years ago) link
man i miss this guy
srsly the only "famous" person death that really, genuinely bummed me out.
― nitzer ebbebe (gbx), Friday, 12 March 2010 02:07 (fourteen years ago) link
ehh i understand and i'm not being totally hardline and humorless about this, nor do i think DFW had any Kafka-ish attitude about his unpublished work etc. or that this has any effect on his legacy. i'm just saying if one of his fans was lucky enough to be in one of his classes, they could stand to be cool about it and not show the guy's little feedback notes to everyone in the world, and the fact that they only did so now that he's dead seems even more gross to me. i realize once a great author is dead people tend to dig up personal correspondence and all sorts of shit, and this isn't quite that, but a little more restraint and decorum would be nice imo.
― some dude, Friday, 12 March 2010 02:23 (fourteen years ago) link
u crazy
― zvookster, Friday, 12 March 2010 02:33 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2010/03/whats-in-the-david-foster-wallace-archive.html
“Unfortunately,” Schwartzburg said, “there does not appear to be a copy of ‘The Corrections.’ ”
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 14 March 2010 00:40 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.lds.org/images/Manuals/tchg-pix.nfo:o:f1e.jpg
― How to Make an American Quit (Abbott), Sunday, 14 March 2010 01:23 (fourteen years ago) link
oh man wrong thread, I'm so sorry
― How to Make an American Quit (Abbott), Sunday, 14 March 2010 01:24 (fourteen years ago) link
not entirely inappropriate
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 14 March 2010 01:52 (fourteen years ago) link
instant lolololz! thnks Abbott!
― a passing basscadet (ctrl-s), Sunday, 14 March 2010 03:05 (fourteen years ago) link
I know right!!!
Student paper: "problematize"DFW: "This is a bullshit academic word. Shun it. Fly it. Trust me."
Salut.
― a passing basscadet (ctrl-s), Thursday, March 11, 2010 2:22 PM (3 days ago)
lol and then he taunts him with that very word down the page when offering him advice on something else
― k3vin k., Sunday, 14 March 2010 05:01 (fourteen years ago) link
hahaha AND a couple page later!
― k3vin k., Sunday, 14 March 2010 05:03 (fourteen years ago) link
so has anyone else pre-ordered this - http://www.amazon.com/Although-Course-You-Becoming-Yourself/dp/030759243X/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271100674&sr=8-5
― just sayin, Monday, 12 April 2010 19:33 (fourteen years ago) link
yup! amazon told me it was shipping today!
― GREAT JOB Mushroom head (gbx), Monday, 12 April 2010 19:34 (fourteen years ago) link
did you see that review on the awl? made me so psyched for it
― just sayin, Monday, 12 April 2010 19:36 (fourteen years ago) link
nope but thx for the heads up!
― GREAT JOB Mushroom head (gbx), Monday, 12 April 2010 19:36 (fourteen years ago) link
very excited for this book
― Mr. Que, Monday, 12 April 2010 19:45 (fourteen years ago) link
supposedly my copy is showing up in mere hours
― ksh, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 18:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Que & i are excited abt the same thing? delete ilx
jk <3 y'all
― ksh, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 18:36 (fourteen years ago) link
mang, no uk edition. ordered it. wonder if it'll show up.
― thomp, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 18:42 (fourteen years ago) link
sorry, pretty sure HM customs and excise are intercepting all US editions of DFW stuff.
― caek, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 18:44 (fourteen years ago) link
ok that awl thing DID make me more excited
― GREAT JOB Mushroom head (gbx), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 19:01 (fourteen years ago) link
****BREAKING: wheelchair terrorists from Canada have seized all copies of the new book "Although of Course you End up Becoming Yourself" by David Lipsky****
― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 19:12 (fourteen years ago) link
my copy just showed up!
― ksh, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 19:34 (fourteen years ago) link
:o
― GREAT JOB Mushroom head (gbx), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 19:39 (fourteen years ago) link
OMG!!! YES!!! SO GOOD 2 HEAR LIVEBLOGG READING IT NOW ITT!!!!!!
― Lamp, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 19:40 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah why r u posting when u should be readin
― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 19:42 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah seriously wtf posting when u should be reading it wtf *hits hand against chest like retard*
― robert bly is mrs. doubtfire? (Matt P), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 19:47 (fourteen years ago) link
god is this already so sad
― GREAT JOB Mushroom head (gbx), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 21:44 (fourteen years ago) link
ha, "this is" but w/e i guess that works too
am v much enjoying thisif it was here i would quote page referencessome of the editorialising is a little ott[repeats my joke, MAKES IT FUNNIER]
― Earning your Masters in Library and Information Science is beautiful (schlump), Thursday, 15 April 2010 12:03 (fourteen years ago) link
so how is this book?????
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:26 (fourteen years ago) link
it's excellent. so far i'm around page 80, having skipped the "afterward" which was somewhere towards the beginning . . .
DFW, as always, is funny, incisive, and smartt. some of Lipsky's in-brackets asides are seriously grating though; occasionally, it feels like he's injecting himself into the book where it isn't really necessary at all
― ksh, Thursday, 15 April 2010 22:49 (fourteen years ago) link
*smart
^ smh
― ksh, Thursday, 15 April 2010 22:50 (fourteen years ago) link
also, if someone could start working on getting a volume of all of DFW's interviews published in full, unedited transcript form, that would be ace. thanks
― ksh, Thursday, 15 April 2010 22:52 (fourteen years ago) link
bleh i think this is still a little too sad for me, but i bet its VG+
― 69, Thursday, 15 April 2010 23:17 (fourteen years ago) link
lipskys interjections are a little grating it's troo
― GREAT JOB Mushroom head (gbx), Thursday, 15 April 2010 23:20 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm guessing in order to stretch out one magazine piece's worth of interviews into a whole book he had to interject a lot
― some dude, Friday, 16 April 2010 00:29 (fourteen years ago) link
not so much really - his part is mainly presented in sometimes overtruncated notes, it's mainly dfw soliloquying. there are some aggrevating cuts, like [dave and I discuss philip roth], but there's enough material (although the second time he grills for further tabloidy history information it's kinda annoying).
v v much enjoying this anyway, i feel invigorated reading it
― Earning your Masters in Library and Information Science is beautiful (schlump), Friday, 16 April 2010 13:10 (fourteen years ago) link
i've only read DFWs non-fiction, but this book really makes me want to buy Infinite Jest. do y'all thing it makes sense to bypass Broom (for now) and just go right for IJ?
― "excellent sound-of-a-generation indie" (ksh), Monday, 19 April 2010 18:39 (fourteen years ago) link
thing = think
― "excellent sound-of-a-generation indie" (ksh), Monday, 19 April 2010 18:40 (fourteen years ago) link
yes
― Mr. Que, Monday, 19 April 2010 18:47 (fourteen years ago) link
ok, thank you Que. i think i might pick up a copy later today or tomorrow
also, to anyone who is on the fence about picking up the Lipsky book, just buy it. i'm not done with it yet, but so far it's incredible
― "excellent sound-of-a-generation indie" (ksh), Monday, 19 April 2010 18:48 (fourteen years ago) link
hey ksh have u read claire messud's the emperor's children????
― Lamp, Monday, 19 April 2010 18:51 (fourteen years ago) link
never heard of her, Lamp. why?
― "excellent sound-of-a-generation indie" (ksh), Monday, 19 April 2010 18:52 (fourteen years ago) link
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― I don't need a bonghit. (ctrl-s), Wednesday, 21 April 2010 13:51 (fourteen years ago) link
(although the second time he grills for further tabloidy history information it's kinda annoying)
yah i got up to this part last night & agree -- although interesting stuff does come out
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 21 April 2010 14:01 (fourteen years ago) link
my copy has dispatched! i was confident that amazon uk were going to do the thing they do where they say it is almost ready to dispatch for like a month and then say they never had a copy after all
― thomp, Wednesday, 21 April 2010 14:16 (fourteen years ago) link
i ordered my copy from amazon uk and got it last wkend :)
― just sayin, Wednesday, 21 April 2010 14:32 (fourteen years ago) link