wow. i'm only like ten minutes in, too.
― Mr. Que, Friday, 28 August 2009 02:35 (fourteen years ago) link
some great mp3s here incl. old DFW interviews and a long interview with his sister with some funny anecdotes.
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Thursday, 3 September 2009 18:09 (fourteen years ago) link
where
― just sayin, Thursday, 3 September 2009 18:21 (fourteen years ago) link
oh ha
http://www.wpr.org/book/090823a.cfm
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Thursday, 3 September 2009 18:29 (fourteen years ago) link
cheers, look awes
― just sayin, Thursday, 3 September 2009 18:35 (fourteen years ago) link
this is so great.
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Thursday, 3 September 2009 19:11 (fourteen years ago) link
day before yesterday was driving across central Illinois listening to that WPR show.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 3 September 2009 21:32 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― nabisco, Thursday, 3 September 2009 21:49 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 3 September 2009 21:51 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/briefinterviewswithhideousmen/
― fleetwood (max), Friday, 4 September 2009 01:58 (fourteen years ago) link
features two different law and order spinoff alums!
oh man that looks like shit.
― i'm beasting off the riesling (M@tt He1ges0n), Saturday, 5 September 2009 00:03 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah seriously bummed about this probable garbage.
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Saturday, 5 September 2009 00:21 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Roz, Thursday, 1 October 2009 06:55 (fourteen years ago) link
This explains much.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 3 October 2009 13:33 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 3 October 2009 23:16 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_sQrxAorDo
― just sayin, Thursday, 22 October 2009 15:08 (fourteen years ago) link
http://quomodocumque.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/wallace-amherst_review-the_planet.pdf
― nice email (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 00:49 (fourteen years ago) link
:(
― just sayin, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 09:32 (fourteen years ago) link
jeez :/
― thomp, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 11:04 (fourteen years ago) link
has this been posted before?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwS5pEfcQNk
hardened my resolve 2 retackle infinite jest
― plaxico (I know, right?), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 11:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Intense essay. Anyone else puzzled by the ending?
― calstars, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 15:52 (fourteen years ago) link
this thing?
it's a short story
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 15:55 (fourteen years ago) link
yeh but it ends kinda
― zappi, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 15:58 (fourteen years ago) link
it ends kinda weirdly midsentence, yeah, just like his first book, can't say i'm a fan of it
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 15:59 (fourteen years ago) link
i like this ending much more than that ending! this one felt coherent and clear and characteristic.
poor dude :(
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 16:43 (fourteen years ago) link
god, he was 21 when he wrote that
― sexual alien v. sexual predator (m bison), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 16:44 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 16:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Did Brief Interviews with Hideous Men ever get released to theaters?
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 16:47 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 16:49 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 16:53 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah it's weird it hasn't made it to DC either, but then again it's only 80 minutes
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 16:55 (fourteen years ago) link
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.]
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Wednesday, 11 November 2009 18:58 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 19:38 (fourteen years ago) link
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 :(
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 11 November 2009 19:45 (fourteen years ago) link
i have a bad feeling about that brief interviews movie
― Thanks to ILX for the research and links. (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 19:48 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm sure it's mostly bad but i want to see it anyway
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 19:50 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^exactly
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 19:53 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 19:32 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah liked it
― eight woofers in the trunk sb'n down the block (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 19:33 (fourteen years ago) link
havent read it yet, but whats the deal - is it an excerpt from the novel or
― just sayin, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 19:51 (fourteen years ago) link
yes
― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 19:56 (fourteen years ago) link
From the Wallace-L mailing list today:
Pietsch says Wallace had been working on [The Pale King] since 1996, and the novel went through various working titles, including "Glitterer," "SJF "(which stood for Sir John Feelgood), and "What is Peoria For?" As we've heard, Wallace did extensive research for the novel in accounting, tax processes, an so forth. What I hadn't heard before today was that various pieces we've seen in stand-alone form are in fact chapter of the novel, including "The Soul Is Not a Smithy" and "Incarnations of Burned Children."
Pietsch is working with more than 1000 pages of manuscript, in 150 unique chapters; the novel will be published in time for tax day in April 2011. As we know, the subject of the novel is boredom. The opening of the book instructs the reader to go back and read the small type they skipped on the copyright page, which details the battle with publishers over their determination to call it fiction, when it's all 100% true. The narrator, David Foster Wallace, is at some point confused with another David F. Wallace by IRS computers, pointing to the degree to which our lives are filled with irrelevant complexity.
The finished book is expected to be more than 400 pages, and will be explicitly subtitled "An Unfinished Novel"; the plan is to make available the drafts and phases the text went through on a website that will exist alongside the book. Pietsch is editing the book in close collaboration with Bonnie Nadell and the estate, but as we've heard him say before, he sees his role very clearly as attempting to order the text into a unified whole, and not making changes that the author isn't there to argue with.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/09/19/davidfosterwallace0919.jpgENGLISH MOTHERFUCKER DO YOU WRITE IT
― ctrl-s, Thursday, 31 December 2009 07:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Anyone see that Brief Interviews movie? Is it terrible?
― ctrl-s, Thursday, 31 December 2009 07:34 (fourteen years ago) link
i dreamed last night that my brother had read infinite jest.
"it was good, you know, but i didn't like it. i wasn't into it."
― thomp, Thursday, 31 December 2009 11:59 (fourteen years ago) link
the brief interviews movie was p. terrible imo
im like 500 emails behind on wallace-l so thx 4 the above~
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 31 December 2009 12:14 (fourteen years ago) link
The opening of the book instructs the reader to go back and read the small type they skipped on the copyright page, which details the battle with publishers over their determination to call it fiction, when it's all 100% true
Wait surely only the tax stuff is true? That is confusing.
thomp are you bored of wyps :(
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Thursday, 31 December 2009 12:23 (fourteen years ago) link
no but partly as a result of playing it i've become addicted to facebook scrabble again /:
also i was bored of you always winning
― thomp, Thursday, 31 December 2009 13:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Anyone else read the Zadie Smith piece about Brief Interviews in her new book? I'm still trying to figure out whether I like it or not.
That bit that ran in the NYer recently, by the way: it's really amazing: http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2009/12/14/091214fi_fiction_wallace
― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Thursday, 31 December 2009 16:01 (fourteen years ago) link
i have been dying to read the Zadie Smith piece
― that sex version of "blue thunder." (Mr. Que), Thursday, 31 December 2009 16:02 (fourteen years ago) link