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Monday, 15 November 2010 20:00 General Updates

David Foster Wallace's Consider The Lobster has been selected for Tomato Nation Read-Along #6. Grab a copy and get reading for December 1st.

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IJF Infinite Jest Forum

Monday, 15 November 2010 19:28 Infinite Jest

Check out these forums hosted explicitly for discussing and reading Infinite jest. www.infinitejestforum.com

[Cheers, Julio]

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I Just Read About That

Monday, 08 November 2010 19:39 Critical Analysis

Paul Debraski has posted a couple of David Foster Wallace related articles recently over at I Just Read About That...

The first is a look at the available audio versions of Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, and the second is a look at the preface and introduction of Consider David Foster Wallace: Critical Essays.

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Confirmed Pale King Excerpts

Monday, 01 November 2010 19:50 The Pale King

I'm trying to organise all the bits and pieces about The Pale King so I thought I'd repost the info I have about confirmed excerpts that are buried deper in this site.

Confirmed excerpts from 'The Pale King':

Good People - The New Yorker Feb 2007

The Compliance Branch (link to pdf) - Harper's Magazine Feb 2008 (First at Le Conversazioni 2006 as untitled excerpt from something lomger that isn't even close to halfway finished yet)

Wiggle Room - The New Yorker March 2009

Irrelevant Bob (? Title Speculation: from the note at the top of page one) Page 1 , Page 2 - The New Yorker March 2009

All That - The New Yorker December 2009

A short passage about the childhood of a girl called Peoria who works for the IRS was read during To The Best of Our Knowledge (Section 2 from 32:15).

A New Examiner - In The Lifted Brow #6 Jan 2010 and in Harper's Sep 2010 (subscription needed).

Other bits and pieces:

Michael Pietsch's comments during a Panel at MLA09 (here) suggest that various pieces previously published such including Incarnations of Burned Children and The Soul Is Not a Smithy (both from Oblivion) are also chapters.

Based on David Foster Wallace's comments at the reading, maybe these.

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Last Updated on Saturday, 06 November 2010 12:46

New Edition of Everything and More

Monday, 01 November 2010 08:06 Upcoming Publications

A reissue of David Foster Wallace's Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity with an introduction by Neal Stephenson is available now from Amazon. I have no idea if any of the mistakes (check out first issue reviews and errata here) have been corrected as my copy has not arrived from Amazon yet.

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Not a New DFW Story

Tuesday, 19 October 2010 10:53 Appearances/Readings

So yesterday on twitter people started mentioning an 'unpublished' David Foster Wallace story (The boy) that appeared over at this tumblr page.

It's actually one third of the text that Matt Hale transcribed back in 2008 from one of my fave DFW readings, the Lannan Readings & Conversations; Dec. 6, 2000, "Three Fragments from a Longer Thing". I would not be surprised if these (or edited parts of these) appeared in The Pale King based on the way DFW introduces them (note that I have no confirmation either way).

If you haven't heard any of the pieces before it is worth taking the time to listen to ~~or read~~ them.

You can listen to DFW reading all three pieces here, ~~or read them as transcribed by Matt Hale, here~~.

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Last Updated on Wednesday, 03 November 2010 07:15

Return to Work Update

Saturday, 16 October 2010 09:56 General Updates

So this week I returned to work after 14 weeks of long service leave (and about 4 weeks of bonding leave prior) taken after the birth of our daughter (now four and half months old). So yeah, updates have been difficult when I've been asleep on the couch after a day at work...

Thanks to those of you who emailed me updates, particularly Antonio, I hadn't heard about the Italian article. A couple of the things below I've already posted on the twitter feed (sorry if you've read them already).

From the New York Times: Coping With an Unfinished Life. An article about Karen Green's (DFW's widow) new exhibition and DFW

“I wanted to redirect my anger, which is useless and fuels nothing, by invading my own privacy and then covering it up,” is how Ms. Green explained her work. The trauma of Mr. Wallace’s death, after the couple had been together for six years, has left her “still in a zombie-like state most of the time,” she said. Nowhere in the show or in the publicity for it does Mr. Wallace’s name appear.