Mother Jones - David Foster Wallace's Best Advice

New York Observer - Life Lessons From a Depressed Person

The Globe and Mail, Globe Books - This is your choice

 

These appeared earlier this month and I somehow missed them. Tim Jacobs' Globe and Mail piece reads like a much better version of a couple of the pieces I posted recently (and his was published first) so give it a read. I'll also take a moment to remind you about Tim's great essay at RainTaxi online, Considering David Foster Wallace Considering You.

The reviews for This is Water continue to roll in. The final two are interesting in that they are negative responses (in different ways) to the release.

 

Newsday.com Bookends - This is Water

The Daily Iowan, Art Brief - Surely, they jest

BOMBlog - Too Little, Too Soon: David Foster Wallace’s “This is Water”

 

And two responses as a result of NYT piece Great and Terrible Truths on Sunday:

Is the new news - DFW, still,

Living Bipolar: Re-Thinking Bipolar Disorder - Commencement or Conclusion?

Essay and review of This is Water by Tom Bissell in the NYT Sunday Book Review - Great and Terrible Truths.

I've just been contacted by Ryan Walsh about his excellent David Foster Wallace Audio Project. The project is a comprehensive collection of DFW audio readings, interviews etc. and is a wonderful resource. Ryan notes on the front page that he is still documenting the source for all of the audio, so if you have any information contact him.

 

I've already let him know that the Brief Interviews Readings were first released online here at the fantods and were put together by the amazing George Carr.

 

Forgot to mention that the site looks great, thumbs up to Jordyn for the design.

Jason over at kottke.org has reproduced, with permission, a great little article written by Matt Bucher. It is an analysis/comparison of The Royal Tenenbaums (a fave movie of mine) and Infinite Jest. I'd read this years ago and forgotten about it. Thanks Matt, and thanks Jason for getting it out there again.

 

The Royal Tenenbaums and Infinite Jest

The occasional DFW related thread pops up over at metafilter. Today's is about the use of the word 'which' in the essay A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again...:

 

And so I found myself asking this for some sort of reassurance, which question would be fielded by AskMefi's language nerds with bewildering rapidity.