What appears to be a new interview with David Foster Wallace is available to read over at Zeit Online. The interview is published in German but with the help of google language tools it is quite possible to draw out some very interesting points. Most exciting are DFW's comments on some of his short stories in Oblivion and Brief Interviews with Hideous Men.

You can now keep track of all Howling Fantods updates using the automated RSS syndication. Sure beats editing it in html. You can subscribe via the feed links in the syndicate menu on the front page. 

Variety.com on Dec 13 2006 noted that the plot of Brief Interviews with Hideous Men as "Julianne Nicholson stars as a graduate student coping with a recent breakup by conducting interviews with various men." Combine this with the suggestion that at the very least interviews #2, #15, #19 and #51 will be incorporated we can begin to get an idea of the content.

 

Welcome to the new Howling Fantods!

 

I've spent quite a bit of time setting up the site using the Joomla open source content management system (CMS). Believe it or not, this has been in the works for over a year. I experimented with a number of CMS setups that did not quite let me do what I wanted. I'm so glad it is finally done.

The two Charlie Rose video interviews are now free for all on Google Video. Thanks to Ben for letting wallace-l know, and also for noting where we need to skip to time wise.

 

1. Roundtable with Jonathan Franzen and Mark Leyner in 1996, tune in at the 35 minute mark.

 

2. The 'bandana interview' of 1997 where DFW does not seem at all comfortable; a very interesting interview. 23 minute mark.

10 Years Beyond the Infinite , Time magazine on 10 years of IJ (from last November).

Jest-Fest '06 on Nov 16 06 was 10th Anniversary Celebration of INFINITE JEST. John Krasinski read from BI #14 (Victory for the Forces of Democratic Freedom!) and you can watch it on YouTube .

 

Finally, uou really must check out Greg Carlisle's fabulous work in progress: The Connectedness of All Events: A Study of Wallace's Infinite Jest. I can't wait until this is finished.