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William Beutler Talks with Biblioklept About Mapping David Foster Wallace’s...
For the past few years, D.C.-based artist William Beutler has been mapping the real and fictional locations of David Foster Wallace’s giant novel Infinite Jest in a project called Infinite Atlas, a...
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List with No Name #10
1. 2666, Roberto Bolaño 2. The Pale King, David Foster Wallace 3. Train Dreams, Denis Johnson 4. The Last Novel, David Markson 5. Samuel Johnson Is Indignant, Lydia Davis 6. Agapē Agape, William...
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Chris Ware on DFW’s Novel The Pale King
Crippled Robot painting by Chris Ware Cartoonist/graphic novelist/chronicler of shame and despair Chris Ware wrote about his favorite books for Foyles bookstore. The list includes Ulysses, Moby-Dick,...
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I Didn’t Like Joshua Cody’s Memoir [sic]
Joshua Cody’s memoir [sic] showed up at Biblioklept World Headquarters a few weeks ago and despite my prejudices, I coasted through it over a few afternoons. Those prejudices: 1) It’s a memoir. 2)...
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Thomas Browne’s Hydriotaphia, Gide’s Dostoevsky, David Foster Wallace’s AIDS...
Needing more books like I need another hole in my head, I nevertheless visited my local bookshop (after an impressive three week abstinence period). No, I haven’t read Thomas Browne’s Urn Burial yet....
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D.T. Max Talks About His David Foster Wallace Biography
Tagged: Books, D.T. Max, David Foster Wallace, Every Story Is a Ghost Story
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I Try to Riff on Both Flesh and Not, DFW’s New Essay Collection, Which I...
1. Today, I picked up Both Flesh and Not, a collection of David Foster Wallace essays and short pieces. I specifically ordered this book from my local bookstore (I didn’t get a review copy), and I...
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“The Great Bridge Between Modernism and Post-modernism”— David Foster Wallace...
. . . Borges is arguably the great bridge between modernism and post-modernism in world literature. He is modernist in that his fiction shows a first-rate human mind stripped of all foundations in...
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Why I’m Not Particularly Interested in Reading a DFW Biography
(Think about it — the personal lives of most people who spend 14 hours a day sitting there alone, reading and writing, are not going to be thrill rides to hear about.) –David Foster Wallace on literary...
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David Foster Wallace on INTERPRET-ME Novels
Certain novels not only cry out for what we call “critical interpretations” but actually try to help direct them . . . Books I tend to associate with this INTERPRET-ME phenomenon include stuff like...
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A Seven Point Riff on David Foster Wallace’s David Markson Essay
1. Like many David Foster Wallace fans, I’d already read many of the essays collected in the posthumous Both Flesh and Not. I hadn’t read “The Empty Plenum: David Markson’s Wittgenstein’s Mistress”...
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A Riff on What I Read (And Didn’t Read) in 2012
I didn’t really read that many new books—by which I mean books published in 2012—this year. The highlight of the new books I did read was Chris Ware’s Building Stories, the moving story of the lives...
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Tom McCarthy & D.T. Max Discuss David Foster Wallace
Tagged: David Foster Wallace, DFW, DT Max, Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story, Tom McCarthy
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“Every lengthy, literary novel that has been published since Infinite Jest...
When Infinite Jest was published in 1996 and David Foster Wallace set the literary world on fire, he was the epitome of cool. He looked like Ethan Hawke and Kurt Cobain’s brother—and he was authentic,...
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D.T. Max and James Wood Talk About David Foster Wallace
Tagged: David Foster Wallace, DFW, DT Max, Infinite Jest, James Wood, Oblivion, The Pale King
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Note on Infinite Jest — Evan Lavender-Smith
Essay describing the structure of Infinite Jest as Hofstadterian strange loop, the novel’s structure being that of a circle with a missing section—between the last and first pages—which must be filled...
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I Anti-Review Evan Lavender-Smith’s Anti-Novel, From Old Notebooks
The style of this review is probably a bad idea. In fact, it’s such a bad idea that it’s probable someone has already done it. Or considered doing it but had the good sense to refrain. From Old...
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“Your first nightmare away from home” (Infinite Jest)
Your first nightmare away from home and folks, your first night at the Academy, it was there all along: The dream is that you awaken from a deep sleep, wake up suddenly damp and panicked and are...
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Cage III — Free Show (Infinite Jest)
Cage III — Free Show. B.S. Latrodectus Mactans Productions/Infernatron Animation Concepts, Canada. Cosgrove Watt, P. A. Heaven, Everard Maynell, Pam Heath; partial animation; 35 mm.; 65 minutes; black...
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An Interview with Evan Lavender-Smith
Evan Lavender-Smith is an American writer who has published two books, Avatar and From Old Notebooks. I really really really like his anti-novel (or whatever you want to call it) From Old Notebooks,...
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