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Two ghosts (David Foster Wallace)
The truth is that there are two actual, non-hallucinatory ghosts haunting Post 047’s wiggle room. No one knows whether there are any in the Immersive Pods; those Pods are worlds unto themselves. The...
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Phantoms and Ghosts in DFW’s Novel The Pale King (Ghost Riff 2)
The narrator of David Foster Wallace’s posthumous novel The Pale King assures us at one point that “phantoms are not the same as real ghosts.” Okay. So what’s a phantom then, at least in the universe...
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Yet another copy of Infinite Jest (Book Acquired, 11.10.2014)
I took my daughter to the bookstore today—she has the day off school—and let her pick out almost as many books as she wanted. (She had trouble carrying more than six, so that’s where we stopped)....
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André Holland Reads from David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King
André Holland (of The Knick, which I dug) reads from David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King. (Via Matt Bucher). Tagged: André Holland, David Foster Wallace, The Knick, The Pale King
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Via: NO! http://t.co/JvHj2pF3AG— film doctor (@filmdrblog) December 08, 2014 Tagged: Bad Ideas, David Foster Wallace
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DFW’s Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, books as memory objects, etc.
On our short walk home from her school yesterday, my darling daughter inquires if we can go to the bookstore. She needs some new Junie B. Jones, she reports. I assent. This particular bookstore is...
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Tagged: Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself, David Foster Wallace, David Lipsky, Jason Segel, Jesse Eisenberg
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Some notes on beginning Evan Dara’s novel Flee
A. What a cover on Evan Dara’s 2013 novel Flee, don’t you agree? B. From the back cover: C. That’s all there is. Well, okay, there’s an ISBN too. But no blurbs, no other text. D. “Something always...
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An Interview with Christopher K. Coffman and Daniel Lukes, Editors of William...
William T. Vollmann: A Critical Companion, new from University of Delaware Press, collects academic essays and memoir-vignettes by a range of critics and authors to make the case that Vollmann is, as...
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“My Appearance”— David Foster Wallace
I am a woman who appeared in public on Late Night with David Letterman on March 22, 1989. In the words of my husband, Rudy, I am a woman whose face and attitudes are known to something over half of the...
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Selections from One-Star Amazon Reviews of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest
[Ed. note: I usually don’t preface these one-star Amazon selection riffs with much, other than to note the occasion for the post. In this case, the occasion is my coming to the end of a second reading...
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The trailer for that David Foster Wallace movie
Look, I’m trying not to be a hater. I am (trying). And a lot of film critics who I generally respect the opinions of have said the film is good or even great. I’ve already ranted my No about this...
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A U.S. of modern A. where the State is not a team or a code, but a sort of...
…but who can imagine this training serving its purpose in an experialist and waste-exporting nation that’s forgotten privation and hardship and the discipline which hardship teaches by requiring? A...
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Madame Psychosis’ Downer-Lit Hour Reading List (Infinite Jest)
Like for months in the spring semester of Y.D.P.A.H. she referred to her own program as ‘Madame’s Downer-Lit Hour’ and read depressing book after depressing book — Good Morning, Midnight and Maggie: A...
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No Zen-type One, always rather Two (Infinite Jest)
How many sub-rosa twins are there, out there, really? What if heredity, instead of linear, is branching? What if it’s not arousal that’s so finitely circumscribed? What if in fact there were ever only...
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Some notes from 299 pages into a rereading of Infinite Jest
A note on the context of the first reading, subsequent ventures, and this rereading I bought David Foster Wallace’s novel Infinite Jest in 1997 when I was a freshman in college, as required by law. I...
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A U.S.A. that would die for the so-called perfect Entertainment (Infinite Jest)
The sky of U.S.A.’s desert was clotted with blue stars. Now it was deep at night. Only above the U.S.A. city was the sky blank of stars; its color was pearly and blank. Marathe shrugged. ‘Perhaps in...
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Irony-free zone (Infinite Jest)
The thing is it has to be the truth to really go over, here. It can’t be a calculated crowd-pleaser, and it has to be the truth unslanted, unfortified. And maximally unironic. An ironist in a Boston AA...
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The Medusa v. The Odalisque (Infinite Jest)
But this one other short high-tech one was called ‘The Medusa v. The Odalisque’ and was a film of a fake stage-production at Ford’s Theater in the nation’s capital of Wash. DC that, like all his...
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Two citations (David Foster Wallace/William H. Gass) and a (not so) very...
‘I miss TV,’ Orin said, looking back down. He no longer smiled coolly. ‘The former television of commercial broadcast.’ ‘I do.’ ‘Reason in several words or less, please, for the box after REASON,’...
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