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Elegant Complexity: A Study of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest

By deedithifrohlich on | From woodducksbird.hotnewsonsale.com
Elegant Complexity: A Study of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest Elegant Complexity is the first critical work to provide detailed and thorough commentary on each of the 192 sections of David Foster Wallace’s masterful Infinite Jest. No other commentary on Infinite Jest recognizes that Wallace clearly divided the book into 28 chapters that are thematically unified. A chronology at the end of the study reorders each section of the novel into a sequential timeline that orients the reader...Read Full Story

Watch Franzen, Eugenides and Wallace talk about writing and failure

By StyleCaster on | From deathandtaxesmag.com
In this week’s New York Times Magazine Riff column, author Garth Risk Hallberg brought up his infatuation with a group of YouTube clips from 2006′s Le Conversazioni, an Italian literary conference. The clips show short bites of Jonathan Franzen, David Foster Wallace, Jeffrey Eugenides and Zadie Smith among others speaking about writing and its fundamentals, namely inspiration and failure. Aside from the YouTube gems he points out, Hallberg’s entry on its own is worth a read. Titled “ ‘Why...Read Full Story

The Pale King — David Foster Wallace

By edwinturner on | From biblioklept.org
In one of the notes at the end of David Foster Wallace’s incomplete novel The Pale King , the author writes, “Plot a series of set-ups for stuff happening, but nothing actually happens.” This is a fairly precise summary of The Pale King —if you take “nothing actually happens” to mean an absence of recognizable character arcs defined through readily identifiable conflicts progressing along a linear narrative. The Pale King is not a traditional novel. Hell, it’s not even really a novel, unless...Read Full Story

David Foster Wallace Books, With Brief Reviews

By suspendor on | From worldsstrongestlibrarian.com
David Foster Wallace A few criticisms that often get aimed at DFW: Pretentious In love with himself Show off Holds his readers in contempt Self-indulgent From Michiko Kakutani’s NYTs review: The book [ Infinite Jest] seems to have been written and edited (or not edited) on the principle that bigger is better, more means more important, and this results in a big psychedelic jumble of characters, anecdotes, jokes, soliloquies, reminiscences and footnotes, uproarious and...Read Full Story

David Foster Wallace, Slavoj Žižek, and Scatological Ideology

By edwinturner on | From biblioklept.org
I came across this clip of Slavoj Žižek discussing the different types of toilets that one finds across Europe the other day, and his riff immediately reminded me of David Foster Wallace’s novella The Suffering Channel (or “The Suffering Channel,” if you prefer to think of it as a long short story). Here’s a version of the riff in English, which seems to approach a stand-up comedy routine at times— “You go to the toilet and you sit on ideology,” says Žižek, arguing that “Disgust . . . is...Read Full Story
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David Foster Wallace in Coversation
In April, the University Press of Mississippi will add a volume on David Foster Wallace to its Literary Conversations Series. A taste of the interviews contained within can be found at Dalkey.  
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The Ugly Club - "David Foster Wallace"
The Ugly Club performing "David Foster Wallace" live @ 10th Street Live in Kenilworth, NJ on 12/30/11.  
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The Ugly Club - "David Foster Wallace" live @ Soundwaves Studios
The Ugly Club "David Foster Wallace" filmed and recorded live @ Soundwaves Studios in Union, NJ w/ Music1nFocus Productions. Engineered/mixed/mastered by Joseph Stasio. Filmed by Seiichi Daimo & Steve Kelly. Produced by Seiichi Daimo.  
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Harry Ransom Center will host the David Foster Wallace Symposium in April...
The Harry Ransom Center will host the David Foster Wallace Symposium on April 5 and 6 at the Ransom Center. The symposium includes a public program on Thursday, April 5, at 7 p.m. in Jessen Auditorium. registration is limited and opens January ...  
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Harry Ransom Center Hosts The David Foster Wallace Symposium
Background: The Ransom Center holds Wallace’s archive, which was made accessible ... For more information, contact: Jennifer Tisdale, Harry Huntt Ransom Humanities Research Center, 512 471 8949; Alicia Dietrich, Harry Huntt Ransom Humanities ...  
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David Foster Wallace's Annotated Books | A Piece of Monologue ...
A Piece of Monologue: Literature, Philosophy, Criticism ... The Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas, offers a few sneak peeks from their archive of David Foster Wallace's books, papers and manuscripts. ... Do Books have a Future? Professor Robert Danton (Harvard University) on academic research, Google Book Search and the future of electronic publishing [Read More]. 3:AM Magazine Awards 2011. Samuel Beckett and Lars Iyer among those...  
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David Foster Wallace Knew More Words Than You Do
The late novelist David Foster Wallace is sort of like the kid who never ... How did Wallace come to use words like "maundering" (from The Pale King) next to words like "wormball?" Quite simply, he read the heck out of the dictionary.  
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