"The Lost Year and Last Days of David Foster Wallace". The full piece (which I have not yet read) is in the Oct. 30th issue of Rolling Stone.
Rolling Stone Excerpt Here
Rolling Stone interview with David Lipsky
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Italian DFW meet upThere will be an Italian three-day meet up in Florence later this month on the 28/29/30 of October. Further details here http://carovecchioneon.wordpress.com/ Keep an eye out over the next few days for details of a couple of US memorials later this month. Pomona Memorial Sevice ReflectionsAbout the recent Pomona College Memorial Service: LA Times The David Foster Wallace Memorial Universtiy Diaries A single cellist played... More tributes/memorials/articles: Salon article with mention of DFW Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Writers & Suicide CNN Link between creativit, mood disorders New fragment? The Pitch. Updates 4-10Please get in contact with us if you have any information about a 'fragment' DFW read at the New Mexico State University in 2007. It was about "a father/husband who was killed when part of him got caught in the closing doors of a subway train, and his family's attempts to deal with it". The reading was at least a 30 minutes. (Thanks, Evan) From September 2007, The Kansas City Pitch Blog, "Plog": Weekend events suggested by David Foster Wallace. Time Out Chicago - Books DFW Amherst Memorial ServiceFrom the Amherst College website: On Monday, Oct. 20, at 7:30 p.m. in Johnson Chapel, Amherst College welcomes the public to a celebration of the life and writing of David Foster Wallace '85. Participants will include David’s classmates, teachers, students and colleagues. A reception will follow, and all are welcome. The event will be recorded, and audio will be posted here following the celebration. Mega link update 1-10Sorry for the lack of updates, the links below cover a lot of the things posted since our outage here. As per usual, you can read a lot of the memorials etc. here DFW 1962-2008. A big thank you to everyone who emailed me with links, and those posting them over at wallace-l Link updates back to 22/9/08: The Amherst Student - In memoriam New York Observer - IJ editor on DFW Washington Post - Poet's Choice Guardian - Thw world according to wallace Blogcritics - The new canon Blogcritics - Sussman New York Mag Books - Infinite Loss New York Mag - Intelligencer The New Republic - DFW Revisited(and a good list of online publications) Publishers Weekly - Postmodern but Classic SMH blogs, All men are liars - This is water NME - Cold War Kids pay tribute Radar Online - Paige Ferrari City Pages - The Blotter ABC Radio National Australia - The Book Show (audio) Globe and Mail - A DFW moment Gawker - 23/9 New York Mag Entertainment - DFW as a teacher Prospect Magazine - Opinions Willamette Week Online - McCain's Promise The Daily Toreador - Educated should focus on life before death Salon.com - The last days of David Foster Wallace (as posted a few dyas ago) Sign and Sight - about the IJ German translation Times Online - David Baddiel on DFW Gawker - Life is pain Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Saturday Essay New York Times- Letter Belltown Messenger - misc Uncertain Principles - On Elegant Complexity Salon.com - Who is the real John McCain? Intellectual Conservative - Thoughts on suicide Boston.com - Infinite Jest Memorial tour LA Weekly - Infinite Loss Italian Links - Minimum Fax 1 Minimum Fax 2 Ready, Steady, Book - On Suicide German Links: Big thanks to IJ's German translator Ulrich Blumenbach who posted an extensive list of German links to wallace-l, I have reproduced it below. Andreas Borcholte wrote "David Foster Wallace tot aufgefunden" (David Foster Wallace found dead) in "Der Spiegel" (14/09/08): http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/0,1518,578151,00.html Wieland Freund wrote "Tod eines depressiven Genies" (Death of a depressive genius) in "Berliner Morgenpost" (15/09/08): http://www.morgenpost.de/printarchiv/kultur/article881005/Tod_eines_depressiven_Genies.html Guido Graf wrote "Manischer Zweifler" (Manic sceptic) in "Frankfurter Rundschau" (15/09/08): http://www.fr-online.de/in_und_ausland/kultur_und_medien/feuilleton/1594071_Manischer-Zweifler.html Gerrit Bartels wrote "In Zukunft ohne mich" (Henceforth without me) in "Tagesspiegel" (15/09/08): http://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/literatur/David-Foster-Wallace;art138,2614453 Thomas Leuchtenmüller wrote "Am Ende der grossen Freiheit" (At the end of the great freedom) in "Neue Zuercher Zeitung" (15/09/08): http://www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/kultur/literatur_und_kunst/selbstmord_david_foster_wallace_1.831879.html Willi Winkler wrote "Die unentrinnbare Unterhaltung" (The inescapable Entertainment) in "Sueddeutsche Zeitung" (15/09/08). Richard Kämmerlings wrote "Die Sucht ist das Wesen des Systems" (Addiction is the essence of the system) in "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" (16/09/08): Harald Jaehner wrote "Schrecklich amuesant - aber in Zukunft ohne mich" (German title of "A supposedly fun thing" but literally "Terribly funny - but henceforth without me") in "Berliner Zeitung" (15/09/08): http://www.netzeitung.de/kultur/1154017.html Tobias Rapp wrote "Suizid als Zeichen" (suicide as sign) in "taz": http://www.taz.de/1/leben/koepfe/artikel/1/suizid-als-zeichen/ Frank Schaefer wrote "Mit vielen Stimmen" (With many voices) in "junge Welt" (17/09/08): http://www.jungewelt.de/2008/09-17/087.php Eberhard Falcke wrote "In Zukunft ohne mich" (Henceforth without me) in "Die Zeit". Michael Braun wrote "Unendliche Spaesse" (Infinite Jests) in "Freitag" (19/09/08): http://www.freitag.de/2008/38/08381602.php Harald Staun wrote "Die Machtlosigkeit der Woerter und die Unendlichkeit des Wahnsinns (The helplessness / powerlessness of words and the infinity of madness) in "Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung" (21/09/08). Italian Links: Big thanks to Roberto Natalini who posted the extensive list of Italian links below to wallace-l: The last Italian publisher of DFW, Einaudi, opened a web page devoted to him http://www.einaudi.it/einaudi/ita/news/can1/5-1222.jsp There is a a story by Antonio Monda in Repubblica (he was actually the organizer of "Le conversazioni" event in 2006): http://www.einaudi.it/einaudi/ita/news/can3/9-1220.jsp and another one by the writer Tommaso Pincio (sic! it's his nom de plume, but Pincio is also a popular park in Rome): http://www.einaudi.it/einaudi/ita/news/can3/9-1221.jsp A comments page is here http://www.einaudi.it/einaudi/ita/news/can1/5-1224.jsp The other Italian publisher was Minimum Fax, and they opened the last issue of their newsletter with some translations from the McSweneey's site and put on the bottom of the page a short text by Martina Testa, one of the main DFW's translators in Italy (the translator of IJ is Edoardo Nesi) http://www.minimumfax.com/newsletter.asp?newsletterID=76&nl=1 Spanish: |
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