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Fantods: David Foster Wallace, wallace-l, and Literary Fandom Online
This paper was presented at the Footnotes conference at CUNY Grad Center on November 20, 2009. It was a thrill and an honor to be part of that panel and conference. For reviewing key passages of this...
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Modern Reader
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2010/01/-leave-me-alone.html Rich’s conclusion (which I agree with) is that the public/private elements of reading need not be mutually exclusive, at least...
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Crappy iPhone pics of the DFW stuff currently on display in the Ransom Center...
Of the DFW archive, I wanted to see what the Ransom Center had chosen to display in the lobby the day after the acquisition announcement. There are four items on display: 1. the cover page of the first...
View ArticleSuttree paper, comments by DFW
Shawn Miklaucic has shared a paper he wrote in 1997 for David Foster Wallace’s English 487 class. The topic is Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree and Fredric Jameson. Wallace’s annotations appear throughout....
View Articlewallace-l Interviews David Lipsky
In 1996, David Lipsky spent five days with David Foster Wallace at a pivotal moment in Wallace’s life—the very week he finished promoting Infinite Jest. Lipsky never wrote the resulting Rolling Stone...
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Goings on
I’ve been busy lately! Last month I was interviewed for this article on the Wall Street Journal‘s Speakeasy blog:...
View ArticleThe Pale King
David Foster Wallace’s posthumous, unfinished novel The Pale King will be published on April 15 and I am really excited about it. Of course, it’s the complete opposite reality of how I’d like to read...
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Recent Update
I haven’t updated this site for a while because of a bizarre WordPress error, but all seems well now. I’ve been busy the past six months! I’ve posted a lot of new things at SimpleRanger.net, tons of...
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Here are a few things I’ve written lately, or places where I’ve been quoted or mentioned online. Back in June I was quoted in this ABC News article about dad blogs. I wrote a weird little thing about...
View ArticleEssay on Fiction Advocate
I recently wrote an essay about David Foster Wallace and my experience with the D.T. Max biography here on Fiction Advocate.
View ArticleThe Cubicle Life
In his long interview with David Foster Wallace, David Lipsky brings up the issue of the decreasing cultural relevance of books (in 1996, mind you). Wallace cuts right to the heart of the problem:...
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Nature’s Nightmare
About a year after SSMG Press published Greg Carlisle’s reader’s guide to Infinite Jest, Elegant Complexity (in December 2007), Greg emailed me and said he was toying with the idea of writing a shorter...
View ArticleCouple of DFW things
1) My essay on the “Year of David Foster Wallace” originally published in Fiction Advocate has been translated into Spanish by Maria Serrano and published online under the new title “DFW, DT, y Yo.”...
View ArticleInterview with Greg Carlisle and Nick Maniatis
Over at The Howling Fantods, Greg Carlisle and I were interviewed by Nick Maniatis about the history of Greg’s books Elegant Complexity and Nature’s Nightmare. Part 1:...
View ArticleThe Fogle Novella
Below is a version of the paper I presented at the Second Annual David Foster Wallace Conference in Normal, Illinois, on May 29, 2015. I’ve removed the page citations, bibliography, and images in this...
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SPEAK Magazine 1996 interview with David Foster Wallace
I had a relatively hard time tracking down this review. SPEAK Magazine ceased publication in 2001 and doesn’t maintain much content on their website. I think it’s too valuable to leave lost in...
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Two Recent Pieces
I recently posted this article about Wes Anderson and Bye Bye Braverman over on simpleranger.net One thing I didn’t mention there is that Braverman includes a scene filmed at the corner of Eastern...
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Twenty Years of wallace-l
“Are we not all of us fanatics?”—Infinite Jest Today marks twenty years since the first email was sent to wallace-l@waste.org. Since that day, another 77,000 emails have found their way through the...
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