The Howling Fantods

After a much needed holiday with the family I'm back from a trip to Melbourne. If you've been following my twitter feed you'll have seen some of the highlights due to be posted over the next few days.

Big thank you to those of you who sent me links, they'll make my job easier over the next few days.

Thanks for reading!

Materials related to the The Pale King have now been added to the David Foster Wallace Archive and are open for research.

Also check out a slide show of materials from The Pale King.

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The DFW Archive page here at The Howling Fantods.

There's a David Foster Wallace quote posted over at the Obama 2012 campaign's official home on Tumblr.

"There is no such thing as not voting; you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard’s vote." - David Foster Wallace, Up, Simba!

[via @littlebrown]

Now that it has been released, reviews, interviews and audio about D.T. Max's biography of David Foster Wallace, Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace:

Updates and new links [17/9/12]:

Author Appearance: Don't miss D.T. Max discussing and signing Every Love Story is a Ghost Story at Skylight Books on 19/9/2012.

Many new reviews in the past week and plenty from the UK over the weekend. Don't hesitate to let me know if I've missed any.

• 2nd Independent review by Thomas Leveritt. [16/9/12]
• 1st Independent review by Archie Bland. [15/9/12]
• Sam Leith's review for Literary Review, Bandanna on the Run. [15/9/12]
• Benjamin Markovits's review for The Guardian. [15/9/12]
• Jason Cowley's Financial Times review, Infinite Quest. [14/9/12]
• Chris Jones' Chicago Tribune review, A version of David Foster Wallace's life. [14/9/12]
• Leslie Jamison's Vice review, The Deaths of David Foster Wallace. [14/9/12]
• Seth Stevenson's, Finding Myself in David Foster Wallace’s Notebook, for Slate's Brow Beat. [14/9/12]
• Kyle Minor's audiobook review for Salon, Behind the David Foster Wallace myth. [14/9/12]
• Christopher Borrelli for the Chicago Tribune, Add David Foster Wallace to 'unlikable' pantheon. [13/9/12]
• Kristen Page-Kirby's review for expressnightout.com, Celebrating the Mourning After. [13/9/12]
• Page-Turner Special 4: D.F.W., In Memoriam. [12/9/12]
• Evan Hughes' review for GQ, The Only Literary Biography You Need To Read This Fall. [12/9/12]
• Interview: John Williams' Arts Beat interview, God, Mary Karr and Ronald Reagan: D.T. Max on David Foster Wallace. [12/9/12]
• Kristen Roupenian's Thought Catalog review, This Should Not Be A Love Story: Reading DT Max’s Biography Of David Foster Wallace. [12/9/12]
• Interview: Read additional material that couldn't fit into Mark Sussman's Capital New York piece. [12/9/12]
• Interview: Samuel Cohen interviews D.T. Max for Believer. [11/9/12]
• Page-Turner Special 4: D.F.W. Week: Did “Infinite Jest” Start Out as an Autobiography? [11/9/12]
• Fiona Duncan's Bullet piece, Remembering the Legacy of David Foster Wallace With His Biographer. [10/9/12]
• Untitled Books review, A Meaningful Life by D.T. Max. [8/9/12]

Previous links:

• Interview: Alex Engebretson's Millions Interview, A Supposedly Brief Interview with D.T. Max. [10/9/12]
• Interview and Excerpt: Brand & Martínez for 89.3 KPCC - A look inside the complicated life of David Foster Wallace. [10/9/12]
• Page-Turner Special 3: Out Loud: D. T. Max on David Foster Wallace. [10/9/12]
• Lee Konstantinou's review for the L.A. Review of Books, 'We’d Hate To Lose You': On the Biography of David Foster Wallace. [9/9/12]
• M.C. Mah's review for The Nervous Breakdown, I Am Not in Here: Every Love Story is a Ghost Story. [9/9/12]
• Gordon Houser's review for The Wichita Eagle, Biography of David Foster Wallace traces his path to greatness and an early death. [9/9/12]
• David Foster Wallace’s Formative Reading List by Falvorwire's Daniel Roberts. [8/9/12]
• John Freeman's Toronto Star review. [8/9/12]
• Jarett Myskiw's Winnipeg Free Press review, Multi-dimensional portrait of U.S. literary star. [8/9/12]
• Page-Turner Special 2: D.F.W. Week: The Wonderfully Arrogant First Pitch Letter. [7/9/12]
• Kyle Beachy's review for Biographile. [7/9/12]
• Mark O'Connell's Slate review, The Genius in the Room. [7/9/12]
• Audio Interview: Studio 360 interviews D.T. Max. [7/9/12]
• Colin Campbell's Macleans.ca review. [7/9/12]
• Interview: The Atlantic interviews D.T. Max, David Foster Wallace: Genius, Fabulist, Would-Be Murderer. [6/9/12]
• Mark Sussman's review for New York Capital. [6/9/12] (Some additional material that couldn't fit into the piece)
• Page-Turner Special 1: D.F.W. Week: Childhood Writings. [6/9/12]
• TVFury's, Thoughts on the David Foster Wallace bio. [5/9/12]
• Bob Wake's review over at Coffee Spew. [3/9/12]
• D.H. Sayer's, The 3 Major Revelations About David Foster Wallace Gleaned From DT Max's Biography. [4/9/12]
• Devin Largent's piece over at A Book Unfinished. [30/8/12]
• Lee Polevoi's review for Highbrow Magazine. [5/9/12]
• Charlie Fox's review for The Quietus. [5/9/12]
• Anthony Domestico's review for The Christian Science Monitor. [5/9/12]
• Interview Village Voice interview with D.T. Max. [5/9/12]
• Excerpt David Foster Wallace in Recovery: An Excerpt From the New Biography. [4/9/12]
• Kevin Morris's review for DBC Reads. [4/9/12]
• Interview Scott Timberg interviews D.T. Max for Salon. [4/9/12]
• Against irony: the Film Doctor's one sentence review of D.T. Max's Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace. [3/9/12]
• Steve Almond's Boston Glove review. [3/9/12]
• Vadim Rizov's A.V. Club review. [3/9/12]
• Audio interview NPR interview with D.T. Max, The Writer Who Was The Voice Of A Generation. [2/9/12]
• Karen R. Long's Cleveland.com review, D.T. Max refracts David Foster Wallace in 'Every Love Story is a Ghost Story. [2/9/12]
• Nicholas Nardini's Open Letters Monthly review, We Must Worship. [9/12]
• Jeff Baker's Oregonian review, David Foster Wallace biography lays bare the torments of a mind on fire. [1/9/12]
• Joe Gross's Statesman.com review, Biographer takes on the many facets of David Foster Wallace. [1/9/12]
• Scott Parker's Star Tribune review, A book worthy of 'Jest' author. [1/9/12]
• S. Kirk Walsh's review for SFGate. [31/8/12]
• Steve Weinberg's review for the Dallas News. [31/8/12]
• Caille Millner's, David Foster Wallace was his own obsession. [31/8/12]
• Penguin Group Video Preview. [30/8/12]
• Interview Michelle Dean's conversation with D.T. Max for The Awl. [30/8/12]
• Sam Sacks' review for The Wall Street Journal, Irony and Its Discontent. [29/8/12]
• Daniel Swift's New Statesman review, David Foster Wallace believed in the transcendent power of writing. [29/8/12]
• Ned Beauman's Guardian review. [30/8/12]
• Craig Fehrman's piece for the Chicago Reader, A portrait of David Foster Wallace as a midwestern author. [29/8/12]
• The opening paragraphs via The Millions. [24/8/12]
• Michiko Kakutani's New York Times review, Searching the Ashes of an Exploded Life. [22/8/12]
• Newsweek excerpt, David Foster Wallace on the Brink of ‘Infinite Jest’. [20/8/12]
• Kirkus review. [15/8/12]

Order Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace from Amazon.com

If you've been needing an excuse to re-read Infinite Jest, or you've been looking for an excuse to buy it and read it... (notice the $4.99 tag on the Kindle version? Not for Aussie readers, though. :/ )

The Wallace-l mailing list (run by friend and fellow Wallace enthusiast, @mattbucher) is running another read of Infinite Jest. Co-ordinated by Richard Stock, it started last week but it's not hard to catch up, and there's no harm subscribing to check it out - though I'd recommend a threaded email reader like gmail, to help you sort through the posts that usually come in a storm at the beginning of each section.

Keep in mind there aren't really spoiler tags - there's an expectation that most people have read the book before.

Discussion about each section is kicked off by a different host each week, here's the schedule for the next few weeks:

IJRR 1: 12 September, pp. 3-49, 46 pages.

IJRR 2: 19 September, pp. 49-87, 38 pages.

IJRR 3: 26 September, pp. 87-151, 64 pages.

IJRR 4: 3 October, pp. 151-219, 68 pages.

IJRR 5: 10 October, pp. 219-283, 64 pages.

IJRR 6: 17 October, pp. 283-3792, 96 pages.

My most rewarding Infinite Jest reading experiences have been via numerous with Wallace-l, come and join us!

Wished I'd seen this earlier so I could let you all know.

(If you act now you might make the deadline...)

Over at Letters to DFW Ryan Blanck is running a giveaway for a copy of Conversations with David Foster Wallace (It's a great book, well worth entering the comp for if you don't have a copy yet).