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The 3rd annual David Foster Wallace conference, DFW 2016, kicks off on soon on July 28th. If you're going, enjoy!
(I believe you can still register...)
Did you miss the recent Infinite Winter group read of Infinite Jest?
Then you might be interested in Poor Yoricks' Summer another group read happening right now. Some nice posts over on the blog.
I'm a broken record, but I always enjoy reading about people reading Infinite Jest.
William Skidelsky's positive review of the String Theory tennis essay collection in the Guardian from the end of last month, String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis review – the best writer on the game ever:
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Read together, these pieces demonstrate a few things. One is that Wallace’s grasp of tennis was truly prodigious. The analytical powers that must have ended up hindering him as a player made him a peerless observer of the sport. He has often been described as the best tennis writer of all time, and these essays don’t disabuse that notion. Wallace is interested in – and understands – every aspect of the game, from its strategic complications and technical evolution through to sponsorship deals and methods of hydration. In itself, of course, such knowledge isn’t exceptional. But where Wallace stands apart is that he is never boring with it. One of the marvels of his writing is the way it combines a nerd’s outlook with a novelist’s gift for exposition. And so when you read, say, the third essay in this book – a 12,000-word screed on the long-forgotten American journeyman Michael Joyce – you don’t begrudge the need to break off from the narrative to take in a half-page footnote on the politics of players’ appearance fees.
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Continue reading, String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis review – the best writer on the game ever.
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Check out Sam Levine's piece for The Huffington Post about Wallace's Kenyon commencement speech, David Foster Wallace's Famous Commencement Speech Almost Didn't Happen.
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"He's foregrounding that idea and playing with it, the idea of being aware of what you're doing at the moments where you wouldn't ordinarily be aware is where you're going to find peace and some wisdom," Pietsch said. "That's what he was exploring -- what people think of boring and ordinary is really the stuff of life."
Even back at Pomona, Wallace had been guarded about what he was going to say in the address. Kathleen Fitzpatrick and Rena Fraden, two of Wallace's colleagues, said he was always discreet about what he was writing. They don't remember Wallace mentioning the address at all. Pietsch said he remembers hearing the address was happening, but didn't speak with Wallace about it. Wallace's sister, Amy, said she doesn't remember her brother mentioning he would be giving Kenyon's commencement address until a week before he did it.
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Continue reading David Foster Wallace's Famous Commencement Speech Almost Didn't Happen.
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