The Howling Fantods ran a David Foster Wallace parody competition back in early 2004. The entries kind of 'went missing' in the transfer to new look and CMS. Now they're back for your reading pleasure! (Thanks for the reminder, George!)

Is it part of a new, dare I say it, novel? As mentioned in the most recent news item, (edit: Thanks for the clarification comment, Mark, it has been read out by DFW before, at a New Yorker event ) the piece David Foster Wallace read at Le Conversazioni 2006, "untitled excerpt from something longer that isn't even close to halfway finished yet" is now available over at the DFW Le Conversazioni 2006 page. Enjoy! 

The Le Conversazioni 2006 website is the source of all the youtube clips. There are five in total, and a (protected) pdf transcript of the previously unseen piece David Foster Wallace read, "untitled excerpt from something longer that isn't even close to halfway finished yet".

 

Find them all here at the Le Conversazioni.

 

(Thanks to all who emailed during the day to let me know about the updates.)

An interesting essay about emotion and sadness in contemporary American writing. Considers Wallace, Franzen, Moody and Lethem. Read it here: An American Type of Sadness.

David Foster Wallace's excellent Kenyon Commencement Speech can be found collected in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006 .