Karen Green

Link: http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/feat... In this week's issue, the New Yorker's running “All That,” a short story excerpted from DFW's forthcoming posthumous book, “The Pale King.” Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment Read Full Story

It's a dark night for the literary world as news of the September 12 death of award-winning author David Foster Wallace spreads. He had committed suicide and was found in his Claremont, California, home by his wife. He was 46. From his first novel, The Broom of the System (1987), to his most recent work, McCain's Promise (an expansion of his 2000 campaign caravan essay), Wallace's body of work included novels, stories, essays, and nonfiction, and he never failed to challenge readers with his fierce intelligence and dynamic (and footnote-friendly) post-modern style. His groundbreaking work, though, was 1996's Infinite Jest , a sprawling 1,000-pages-plus ... Read Full Story

According to this morning’s New York Times , David Foster Wallace’s posthumous–and unfinished–novel The Pale King will be published next year by Little, Brown. The New Yorker has published an excerpt called “Wiggle Room.” Here’s the first three sentences, just in case you need your literary appetite whetted: Lane Dean, Jr., with his green rubber pinkie finger, sat at his Tingle table in his chalk’s row in the rotes group’s wiggle room and did two more returns, then another one, then flexed his buttocks and held to a count of ten and imagined a warm pretty beach with mellow surf, as instructed in orientation ... Read Full Story

I went to a very ‘Este-like’ seminar when I was twenty four years-old held at The Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. At that time I worked as a teacher of after-school programs (soccer/hockey/cartooning/calligraphy) at Sonoma Country Day School and they paid for me to attend the seminar. As with many new experiences I thought, “what the hell, I’ll try it”. I caught-on very quickly that the seminar was an LSD conversation for people who’d never taken the drug or for those who hadn’t tripped in decades. Much of the weekend was hysterical hogwash. But a couple of productive things materialized. One was a perspective ... Read Full Story

To The Best Of Our Knowledge's tribute to David Foster Wallace. Listening to this makes me even sadder that he's gone, and even happier that his creations live on. Click on the photo to download both an audio tribute to, and a number of great conversations with, David Foster Wallace. > Read Full Story