Update 14/12/12
Official Harvard Video via YouTube.
Times below still accurate to within 30 seconds or so.
Related Articles:
- The Glance Reveals, The Malady Was Life Itself: The Origin of A David Foster Wallace Anecdote. [11/12/12] (Here's a direct video link to the quote during the evening)
- Harvard Arts Blog, The weird, happy accident of David Foster Wallace. [12/12/12]
- Katie Koch for the Harvard Gazette, A too-short life, examined. [13/12/12]
Update 12/12/12:
You can download an audio only mp3 version of the D.T. Max and James Wood conversation at Harvard here. (78MB)
No need to purchase anything. Scroll down and click the regular free download in the bottom right hand corner. Removed now that official Harvard video is available.
It got the second last question from Sven, and the beginning of the responses. I believe there may have been one more question after it.
(3:10) James Wood - Intro
(6:55) James Wood, "I don't come to him as an expert. I come to him indeed with something like periodic blindness. I reviewed Infinite Jest when it came out in The Guardian, positively, but I did not review Oblivion positively. And over the years I've been educated, I think, my blindnesses have been educated by friends and colleagues. Sven among them, Wyatt Mason would be another who have helped me, I think, to see at times where I have been wrong in, or hasty, in my readings. D. T. Max is absolutely one of those educators and please give him a warm hand of applause."
(9:20) Phillip reads IJ excerpt.
(20:30) Hannah reads from A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again.
(29:20) D. T. Max speaks about the bio and reads from it.
(50:25 - end) Conversation between D. T. Max and James Wood with questions at the end. Missing final question (I believe).
Update: Live stream of the event from December 10, 6:00pm, here.
D.T. Max on David Foster Wallace, in conversation with James Wood Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism, Harvard University.
Monday 10th December 2012.
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And Keith's comment is spot-on.