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Announcing the Parody Comp Part 2!
Sunday, 17 June 2007
A post to wallace-l by George Carr a couple of days ago was the impetus for me to make the old parody comp winners and entries available again. That was just the first step... 
 
Entries are now open for the 2007 David Foster Wallace Parody Competition!
 
George is running the comp with The Howling Fantods hosting. Follow the read more link below for details.
 
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Best American Essays 2007 edited by DFW
Saturday, 16 June 2007
Due on the 10th of October, The Best American Essays 2007 is edited by David Foster Wallace. It will be interesting to find out what he selects. You can pre-order it at Amazon.com right now.
 
(Also, Thomas Pynchon's latest, Against the Day, is listed at an amazingly low price over at Amazon right now, check the side bar on the right for details).
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DFW Parodies
Saturday, 16 June 2007
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!)
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New Fiction from something longer: "untitled excerpt..."
Friday, 01 June 2007
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! 
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DFW Le Conversazioni 2006
Friday, 01 June 2007
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.)
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DFW Le Conversazioni 2006 readings on YouTube
Thursday, 31 May 2007

YouTube user Dazzlecomm has posted three great videos of David Foster Wallace speaking at Le Conversazioni 2006.

DFW on Failure

on Language

and on Inspiration

(Thanks to Tim for letting wallace-l know about this. I'm not able to check the YouTube links at this PC, if they don't work please leave a comment below.)

 

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An American Type of Sadness
Wednesday, 25 April 2007
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.
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