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NYT and Some Came Running Lipsky Reviews
DFW Biography
Wednesday, 02 June 2010
Ken Kalfus has reviewed David Lipsky's book for The New York Times - Wish You Were Here.
 
Glenn Kenny is more critical over at Some Came Running. [Previously about Glenn Kenny].
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Circled Words in A Supposedly Fun Thing and Oblivion
General Updates
Wednesday, 02 June 2010
Don has continued to map words David Foster Wallace circled in his American Heritage Dictionary [Previously re: IJ] and he's now mapped words to A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again and Oblivion.
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Ryan Blanck's Letters to DFW
General Updates
Wednesday, 02 June 2010
Been a while since I updated this one - Ryan Blanck is still going strong with his Letters to DFW project.
 
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Just Because
Latest News
Friday, 28 May 2010
News might be a bit slow over the next couple of weeks for some reason...
 
Eleni was born at 5:51am this morning - 3.560kg or 7lb 13oz (ish) for grandparents/weird countries... :) 
 
 
Re: News and stuff - if you do discover something pressing while I'm busy, be sure to let me know here, it will streamline things a bit.
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Here & Now Lipsky Interview
DFW Biography
Wednesday, 26 May 2010
Here & Now interviewed David Lipsky on radio about his book, Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace. Listen to the audio of the interview by clicking on the listen to the story link on the top right of the page.
 
It's a great interview and well worth a listen.
 
Jump to 6:30 or so to hear some audio of David Foster Wallace from Lipsky's original recordings. DFW on how to treat others and ourselves...
 
(Cheers, Matt)
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The Cage and the Ecstasy of St. Teresa in Infinite Jest
Infinite Jest
Sunday, 23 May 2010
The Cage in Infinite Jest
 
Posted over at Dennis Coopers's blog, DC's , is an extensive collection of references to Sidney Peterson's The Cage in Infinite Jest by guest blogger, Alan: Alan presents ... 'The Cage'/'Infinite Jest'.
 
 
Bernini’s Ecstasy of St. Teresa in Infinite Jest
 
On Alan's own blog, the purest of treats, is an examination of DFW’s use of Bernini’s “Ecstasy of St. Teresa” in a series of posts at the beginning of March. He advises to scroll down to the bottom of the March Archive to have a look (some NSFW images, take care).
 
(Cheers to Andrew for pointing these out)
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On Westward
Critical Analysis
Tuesday, 18 May 2010

Jennifer Shapland over at the American Short Fiction Blog has posted a short article about David Foster Wallace's novella Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way from Girl With Curious Hair. Jennifer writes:

Here’s the thing: I love this story. I love its ambition. The premise is a trip, a journey deep into rural Illinois (funny that his essay on the Illinois State Fair was written years later). The characters are en route to a reunion of everyone who’s ever been in a McDonald’s commercial, held at this pretty sinister physical interpretation of Barth’s funhouse. Basically, Wallace is trying to write his way out of the trap of metafiction set by writers like Barth by using metafiction, stretching self-referentiality to its limits.

I love this story too, just be wary of some spoilers in the article, if you have not read Westward yet.

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