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The Chaffey Review: New unpublished DFW

Tuesday, 02 December 2008 16:57 Upcoming Publications
I received an exciting email from The Chaffrey Review Literary Magazine today:
 
 
We here at The Chaffey Review literary magazine would first like to extend
yet another expression of sympathy towards the entire David Foster Wallace
fan community concerning his tragic passing.
 
We do, however, have interesting and potentially exciting news concerning a
previously unpublished Wallace piece. Before his death, Wallace agreed to
donate a portion of a larger work ("An Untitled Chunk") along with first
publishing rights, to the students of Chaffey College, allowing us to print it
in the first edition of our literary magazine. The magazine is being published
this January and is the only available printing of this piece. Our contract with
Wallace's family and agent dictates that we cannot publish any portion of the
piece online, nor in any other publication, so this is truly a unique opportunity.

You can find more information about The Chaffey Review at
http://www.chaffeyreview.org/.
We request that you pass on this information about Wallace's piece to the rest
of the Davis Foster Wallace fan community in order to promote this final piece
of his work.

Thank you very much,
 
The Chaffey Review Literary Magazine
 
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Slate Audio Bookclub: Infinite Jest

Tuesday, 02 December 2008 16:48 Infinite Jest
The December Slate Audio Bookclub will discuss Infinite Jest as its subject for December. More here.
 
Other news/links:
 
District Weekly - Seven False Starts about the Death of David Foster Wallace
New Statesman - An American Suicide
 
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Update 20-11-08

Thursday, 20 November 2008 18:26 General Updates
A couple of new links:
 
Sincerity with a Motive: What David Foster Wallace taught us about television and fiction, from the The Weekly Standard.
 
And an amazing DFW epitaph from David von Behren (thanks, David):
 
"Human beings came and went" an epitaph of thanksgiving to my mentor the late David Foster Wallace.
 
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Update 16-11-08

Sunday, 16 November 2008 18:57 General Updates
The Howling Fantods isn't disappearing anytime soon.
 
It is nearing end of school term here and I have a lot of marking and many reports to write. That said, I did intentionally give myself a break from updates for the past few weeks just to clear my head.
 
Please get in touch through the contact link if you sent me a link that has not been posted, or told me about your blog tribute, or anything that I missed in the hundreds of emails since mid September. Thanks everyone.
 
Now for some links:
Wind Down - A great little vid
Blammos Living with David Foster Wallace (Link to the mp3 here and I'm terribly sorry I missed posting news about the vid shoot just the other day...)
Words I learned from reading David Foster Wallace - I've added this one to my daily feeds
Rocky Mountain News - A writer's painful secret
American Chronicle - Of Infinite Jest and Infiniste Sadness
David Foster Wallace: A Profile - by Bill Katovsky - 1987 via McSweeney's
The David Foster Wallace Memorial Fund - Different to the one DFW set up for his nieces just to clear up any confusion
The Frontal Cortex - Foster Wallace and Depression
OUPblog - DFW's contribution to the Writer's Thesaurus
The AV Club - DFW memorialised
 
ISU Memorial Links (sorry everyone, I missed this too):
 
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Last Updated on Sunday, 16 November 2008 19:20
 

Rolling Stone Full Article

Friday, 31 October 2008 03:59 DFW Remembrance
Rolling Stone have posted the full text of David Lipsky's moving and tragic piece online, The Lost Years & Last Days of David Foster Wallace. 
 
David Lipsky has done a wonderful job with this article. It is not an emotionally easy read though.Thanks to Rolling Stone for putting the full text online (And a shout out to David Lipsky and Will Dana for getting in touch over the last few weeks, cheers.)
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Last Updated on Sunday, 13 September 2009 21:04
 

Update 29-10

Wednesday, 29 October 2008 15:19 General Updates
The Observer on Franzen at the NYC Memorial:  Jonathan Franzen Remembers David Foster Wallace
 
DFW blurb in promotional pamphlet for the Great Discoveries series about his book Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity  (Thanks, Douglas)
 
Furious Seasons - Psych Meds Save Lives
 
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 October 2008 15:36
 

Autopsy Report

Tuesday, 28 October 2008 13:08 General Updates

The Smoking Gun has published the autopsy report. Please note that this is an autopsy report, and as such contains explicit reference to things many of you may find upsetting.

I've thought long and hard about posting the link below, but what it has come down to is that I know visitors to this site are, for the most part, people who care greatly about David Foster Wallace and his works. I would also rather know that interested readers found this report after visiting here, and remembering that David Foster Wallace, from everything we've read, heard and know about him, was a good person. His life should not be defined by his final moments. I fear that wider reports about the link below will focus on the details of his last moments, rather than the insight with which he left us through his writing.

If anything, think about donating to the college trust fund DFW set up for his nieces. I can give you the address if you contact me directly (I have been asked not to post it directly on the site).

Autopsy report via The Smoking Gun

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