There will be an Italian three-day meet up in Florence later this month on the 28/29/30 of October.

Further details here http://carovecchioneon.wordpress.com/

 

Keep an eye out over the next few days for details of a couple of US memorials later this month.

 

 

 

 

 

About the recent Pomona College Memorial Service:

 

LA Times The David Foster Wallace Memorial

LA Times Blogs

Universtiy Diaries A single cellist played...

 

 

More tributes/memorials/articles:

 

Newsday.com

Salon article with mention of DFW

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Writers & Suicide

CNN Link between creativit, mood disorders

 

Please get in contact with us if you have any information about a 'fragment' DFW read at the New Mexico State University in 2007. It was about "a father/husband who was killed when part of him got caught in the closing doors of a subway train, and his family's attempts to deal with it". The reading was at least a 30 minutes. (Thanks, Evan)

 

From September 2007, The Kansas City Pitch Blog, "Plog": Weekend events suggested by David Foster Wallace.

 

 

One Last Example of the Porousness of Certain Borders 

Time Out Chicago - Books

 

 

 

From the Amherst College website:

 

On Monday, Oct. 20, at 7:30 p.m. in Johnson Chapel, Amherst College welcomes the public to a celebration of the life and writing of David Foster Wallace '85. Participants will include David’s classmates, teachers, students and colleagues. A reception will follow, and all are welcome. The event will be recorded, and audio will be posted here following the celebration.

Sorry for the lack of updates, the links below cover a lot of the things posted since our outage here. As per usual, you can read a lot of the memorials etc. here DFW 1962-2008. A big thank you to everyone who emailed me with links, and those posting them over at wallace-l

 

Link updates back to 22/9/08:

 

Can't Stop the Bleeding

The Amherst Student - In memoriam

New York Observer - IJ editor on DFW

Washington Post - Poet's Choice

Guardian - Thw world according to wallace

Blogcritics - The new canon

Blogcritics - Sussman

New York Mag Books - Infinite Loss

New York Mag - Intelligencer

The New Republic - DFW Revisited(and a good list of online publications)

Publishers Weekly - Postmodern but Classic

SMH blogs, All men are liars - This is water

NME - Cold War Kids pay tribute

Radar Online - Paige Ferrari

City Pages - The Blotter

ABC Radio National Australia - The Book Show (audio)

Globe and Mail - A DFW moment

Gawker - 23/9

New York Mag Entertainment - DFW as a teacher

Prospect Magazine - Opinions

The Millions

Willamette Week Online - McCain's Promise

The Daily Toreador - Educated should focus on life before death

Salon.com - The last days of David Foster Wallace (as posted a few dyas ago)

Sign and Sight - about the IJ German translation

Times Online - David Baddiel on DFW

Gawker - Life is pain

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Saturday Essay

New York Times- Letter

Belltown Messenger - misc

Uncertain Principles - On Elegant Complexity

Salon.com - Who is the real John McCain?

Intellectual Conservative - Thoughts on suicide

Boston.com - Infinite Jest Memorial tour

LA Weekly - Infinite Loss

Italian Links - Minimum Fax 1 Minimum Fax 2

McSweeney's Memories

Ready, Steady, Book - On Suicide

The Frontal Cortex

 

 

Big thanks to IJ's German translator Ulrich Blumenbach who posted an

extensive list of German links to wallace-l, I have reproduced it below.

 

Andreas Borcholte wrote "David Foster Wallace tot aufgefunden" (David Foster
Wallace found dead) in "Der Spiegel" (14/09/08):
http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/0,1518,578151,00.html

Wieland Freund wrote "Tod eines depressiven Genies" (Death of a depressive
genius) in "Berliner Morgenpost" (15/09/08):
http://www.morgenpost.de/printarchiv/kultur/article881005/Tod_eines_depressiven_Genies.html

Guido Graf wrote "Manischer Zweifler" (Manic sceptic) in "Frankfurter
Rundschau" (15/09/08):
http://www.fr-online.de/in_und_ausland/kultur_und_medien/feuilleton/1594071_Manischer-Zweifler.html

Gerrit Bartels wrote "In Zukunft ohne mich" (Henceforth without me) in
"Tagesspiegel" (15/09/08):
http://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/literatur/David-Foster-Wallace;art138,2614453

Thomas Leuchtenmüller wrote "Am Ende der grossen Freiheit" (At the end of
the great freedom) in "Neue Zuercher Zeitung" (15/09/08):
http://www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/kultur/literatur_und_kunst/selbstmord_david_foster_wallace_1.831879.html

Willi Winkler wrote "Die unentrinnbare Unterhaltung" (The inescapable
Entertainment) in "Sueddeutsche Zeitung" (15/09/08).

Richard Kämmerlings wrote "Die Sucht ist das Wesen des Systems" (Addiction
is the essence of the system) in "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung"
(16/09/08):

Harald Jaehner wrote "Schrecklich amuesant - aber in Zukunft ohne mich"
(German title of "A supposedly fun thing" but literally "Terribly funny -
but henceforth without me") in "Berliner Zeitung" (15/09/08):
http://www.netzeitung.de/kultur/1154017.html

Tobias Rapp wrote "Suizid als Zeichen" (suicide as sign) in "taz":
http://www.taz.de/1/leben/koepfe/artikel/1/suizid-als-zeichen/

Frank Schaefer wrote "Mit vielen Stimmen" (With many voices) in "junge Welt"
(17/09/08):
http://www.jungewelt.de/2008/09-17/087.php

Eberhard Falcke wrote "In Zukunft ohne mich" (Henceforth without me) in "Die
Zeit".

Michael Braun wrote "Unendliche Spaesse" (Infinite Jests) in "Freitag"
(19/09/08):
http://www.freitag.de/2008/38/08381602.php

Harald Staun wrote "Die Machtlosigkeit der Woerter und die Unendlichkeit des
Wahnsinns (The helplessness / powerlessness of words and the infinity of
madness) in "Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung" (21/09/08).

 

 

extensive list of Italian links below to wallace-l:

 
The last Italian publisher of DFW, Einaudi, opened a web page devoted to him
http://www.einaudi.it/einaudi/ita/news/can1/5-1222.jsp
There is a a story by Antonio Monda in Repubblica  (he was actually
the organizer of "Le conversazioni" event in 2006):
http://www.einaudi.it/einaudi/ita/news/can3/9-1220.jsp
and another one by the writer Tommaso Pincio (sic! it's his nom de
plume, but Pincio is also a popular park in Rome):
http://www.einaudi.it/einaudi/ita/news/can3/9-1221.jsp
A comments page is here
http://www.einaudi.it/einaudi/ita/news/can1/5-1224.jsp

The other Italian publisher was Minimum Fax, and they opened the last
issue of their newsletter with some translations from the McSweneey's
site
and put on the bottom of the page a short text by Martina Testa, one
of the main DFW's translators in Italy (the translator of IJ is
Edoardo Nesi)
http://www.minimumfax.com/newsletter.asp?newsletterID=76&nl=1

 

Hermano Cerdo

 

 

 

 

 

I have a backlog of updates, and some behind the scenes stuff to deal with at the fantods, but this Salon article is worth posting about:

 

 

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[Thanks for all the support during the downtime, everyone. I am surprised by the number of you who have offered support, and as such I am trying to sort out a way to make this possible that does not make me feel uncomfortable.]