Ward Sanders' art tribute to David Foster Wallace, Howling Fantods: A Tribute to David Foster Wallace:
Howling Fantods: A Tribute to David Foster Wallace
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A Tribute to David Foster WallaceThe End of the Tour July UpdatesUpdates 30/7/2015 - more below: Official Site. Press release here. NYC and CA release on July 31st - other venues to follow. With the recent L.A premiere of The End of the Tour at the WGA Theatre this week earlier this month and slightly wider release on July 31 there's quite a bit of news floating around. I'll keep this page updated with links for the remainder of the month.
Just Words - A celebration of writer David Foster Wallace in anticipation of the film The End Of The Tour - Updated regularly in the lead up to the July 31 release
Links below added from 30/7/15
Jason Segel on WTF Podcast Ep 623
Marc Maron (@marcmaron @WTFpod) interviewed Jason Segel (star of The End of the Tour) for this week's WTF Podcast: Episode 623. David Foster Wallace and The End of the Tour discussion starts around 59:00. Segel speaks about getting the role, reading Infinite Jest for the first time as part of a book group, sobriety, fame, themes in Infinite Jest and heaps of other stuff. Fascinating interview.
David Foster Wallace's Adderall novelDaniel Kolitz has written an extensive piece for Hopes and Fears about The Pale King, specifically §22 (The Fogle novella), Attention without choice: David Foster Wallace's Adderall novel:
The piece in question comes early in The Pale King, Wallace’s unfinished, posthumously published novel-in-fragments. It’s a 98-page monologue (really, a novella) delivered by one ‘Irrelevant’ Chris Fogle, a near-derangedly prolix IRS employee. Fogle tells us of his self-described “wastoid” adolescence spent drifting in the post-Watergate ‘70s, an apparent wasteland of drugs, divorce and daytime television. He says that he “had no motivation,” that “everything at that time was very fuzzy and abstract.” [...] The FDA approved Obetrol in 1960, as a diet drug. It was meth, mostly, with some dextroamphetamine tossed in to distinguish it from the competition. Obetrol was just one of many drugs then ushering in a kind of golden age of rampant speed abuse. Truckers, hippies, housewives: Collectively they popped, snorted and shot the country into an outright epidemic, as detailed in Nicholas Rasmussen’s On Speed. [...] Did Wallace realize he was writing about Adderall? It’s not impossible: Anyone whose risked their vision reading Infinite Jest’s 8-print footnotes knows the guy had more than a passing interest in pharmacology. And by the time he started writing the Fogle section, in the mid-‘00s, Adderall was already a decade into its steep ascent, generating countless newspaper pieces on overmedication and undergraduate pill-slinging. Wallace—a well-informed adult working on a college campus—would likely have been aware of it. [...] Continue reading Attention without choice: David Foster Wallace's Adderall novel.
For more about the Fogle novella check out Matt Bucher's essay, The Fogle Novella: Catalysts in the Conversion Narrative, that he presented at the DFW2015 conference earlier this year. DFW and the Short Things - Programme
The programme for the one day (July 8th 2015) University of Bristol conference, David Foster Wallace and the Short Things (previously) is now available here. Looks to be a fantastic field for a single day.
The Fogle Novella - DFW2015If you read to the very bottom of yesterday's post about DFW2015 you would have found a link to, A Few Trends in DFW Studies by Matt Bucher (of SSMG Press, list owner of wallace-l, Simple Ranger and generally all around DFW fan/expert and nice guy).
Matt also presented a paper at the DFW 2015 conference, The Fogle Novella: Catalysts in the Conversion Narrative, and it's pretty great. It's no secret that The Fogle Novella is one of the standout sections, §22, of The Pale King and can stand alone as a novella. In fact Madras Press sell it separately as, The Awakening of My Interest in Advanced Tax, with proceeds going to Granada House. [...]This essay discusses the structure of Fogle’s conversion narrative, the catalysts that force a change in his story, and the similarities his story shares with early American Puritan conversion narratives. Fogle’s Section 22 is long enough and self-contained enough to stand on its own and so I refer to it in places as “the Fogle novella” or just “the novella.” Throughout Fogle’s narrative, there are three main catalysts that instigate change within his life: 1) his father’s “Ozymandias” statement, 2) hearing the As The World Turns tagline, and 3) the Jesuit substitute’s speech at DePaul. As a literary construct, Fogle’s narrative mirrors the structure of Puritan conversion narratives, which Patricia Caldwell’s work has shown to be a primarily literary form masked as a religious element. Fogle’s story arc follows a surprisingly similar pattern and still adheres to the greater project of The Pale King: boredom as religious experience.[...]Click here to continue reading, The Fogle Novella: Catalysts in the Conversion Narrative. |
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