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Infinite Jest
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Friday, 19 November 2010 |
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There's some seriously awesome stuff in here. I've just spent four hours of my Saturday morning in a meeting trying to read this stuff on my phone (and discovering a bug in the webkit browser that stopped me from being able to update the site from my phone. Arrgh.) Thanks, Seth!
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Philosophy
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Monday, 15 November 2010 |
I've been making my way through an e-book pre-pub version of the upcoming Fate, Time and Language: An Essay on Free Will (publication and analysis of David Foster Wallace's philosophy thesis, Due Dec 14) and enjoying it quite a bit. The essays do a very good job of contextualising Wallace's work and explaining the complexity and importance of the philosophy behind it, and the book is worth it for the supporting material. He does an excellent job of summarising the thesis and the supporting essays in the collection giving it a positive review. Check it out over at I Just Read About That...
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The Pale King
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Monday, 01 November 2010 |
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Confirmed excerpts from 'The Pale King': - A short passage about the childhood of a girl called Peoria who works for the IRS was read during To The Best of Our Knowledge (Section 2 from 32:15).
Other bits and pieces:
- Michael Pietsch's comments during a Panel at MLA09 (here) suggest that various pieces previously published such including Incarnations of Burned Children and The Soul Is Not a Smithy (both from Oblivion) are also chapters.
- Based on David Foster Wallace's comments at the reading, maybe these.
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Appearances/Readings
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Monday, 18 October 2010 |
So yesterday on twitter people started mentioning an 'unpublished' David Foster Wallace story (The boy) that appeared over at this tumblr page. It's actually one third of the text that Matt Hale transcribed back in 2008 from one of my fave DFW readings, the Lannan Readings & Conversations; Dec. 6, 2000, "Three Fragments from a Longer Thing". I would not be surprised if these (or edited parts of these) appeared in The Pale King based on the way DFW introduces them (note that I have no confirmation either way). If you haven't heard any of the pieces before it is worth taking the time to listen to or read them.
You can listen to DFW reading all three pieces here, or read them as transcribed by Matt Hale, here. |
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General Updates
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Friday, 15 October 2010 |
So this week I returned to work after 14 weeks of long service leave (and about 4 weeks of bonding leave prior) taken after the birth of our daughter (now four and half months old). So yeah, updates have been difficult when I've been asleep on the couch after a day at work... Thanks to those of you who emailed me updates, particularly Antonio, I hadn't heard about the Italian article. A couple of the things below I've already posted on the twitter feed (sorry if you've read them already). “I wanted to redirect my anger, which is useless and fuels nothing, by invading my own privacy and then covering it up,” is how Ms. Green explained her work. The trauma of Mr. Wallace’s death, after the couple had been together for six years, has left her “still in a zombie-like state most of the time,” she said. Nowhere in the show or in the publicity for it does Mr. Wallace’s name appear. |
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Conferences
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Tuesday, 05 October 2010 |
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Sounds very promising! Keep an eye out for the call for papers. [Cheers, Toon]
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