Update
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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