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David Foster Wallace's Hilarious Letter To His College Newspaper
Culture Buzz David Foster Wallace, author of “Infinite Jest,” would have turned 50 today. To celebrate his birthday, here's the letter he wrote to the Amherst College newspaper in response to a jerk who thought it was an unalienable right to blast AC/DC as loud as humanly possible.
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Link: Did David Foster Wallace Ruin The Internet?
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/magazine/another-thing-...
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DFW would often use a mixture of colloquialism and disclaimer to adopt a posture that deflects any negative response by appearing to anticipate it. Sound familiar? I mean, I'm not saying that this article is going to change your life or whatever, but, like, it strikes close to home? Or not. Something, anyway. Definitely something. (Hit the links below for more on the topic.)
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The Decemberists’ Amazing Tribute To David Foster Wallace
Music Buzz In their new video for “Calamity Song,” The Decemberists envision how Eschaton — the awesome apocalyptic tennis game from “Infinite Jest” — might work. For fans of: The Decemberists, David Foster Wallace. (NPR, via @joelrama)
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Image: David Foster Wallace’s ‘Pale King’ Out April 15
David Foster Wallace's posthumous novel about an IRS return-processing center will fittingly be released on Tax Day. The M.I.A.-ish cover (below) was designed by his widow. You can read an excerpt here.
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Image: David Foster Wallace, “Viking Poem”
Childhood writings of a tragic genius. Stay away from Vikings, y'all. Miss ya', DFW.
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Link: David Foster Wallace Short Story
http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2009/12/14/0912...
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.”
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Link: David Foster Wallace Grammar Challenge!
Hey, you know what's fun? Grammar. Let's all take a grammar challenge courtesy of the great DFW himself. Let me know how you do. (Kottke, via @fmanjoo.)
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The Pale King
Culture Buzz Two hundred pages of an unfinished novel were found on the late David Foster Wallace's desk. The New Yorker has an excerpt in this week's issue, and the pages will be published in full next year. The novel is set “in an Internal Revenue Service office in Illinois in the 1980s.”
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Link: Words I Learned From Reading David Foster Wallace
http://dfwwords.wordpress.com/
A blog dedicated to the esoteric vocabulary used in David Foster Wallace's books. The nice thing about these obscure words is that you might actually imagine yourself using them. Like, the word indurate meaning “physically or morally hardened” - that's kind of like me! And most of the people I know.
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Link: ‘Brief Interviews with Hideous Men’ Preview
http://theenvelope.latimes.com/news/env-et-krasinski19-20...
The LA Times has a clip of John Krasinski's David Foster Wallace adaptation. That's the other guy from Sports Night! I missed him.
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Link: David Foster Wallace on John Ziegler
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200504/wallace
A profile of the radio host-turned-Nate Silver basher by the late David Foster Wallace. Wallace gives the man a lot more thought and sympathy than he deserves, which is why DFW was DFW and John Ziegler is a blowhard.
