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Bough Down by Karen GreenBough Down by Karen Green. Publication date April 30, 2013.
Read the Press Release from Siglio Books. There's also an excerpt over at Bombsite. L.A. Times - Jacket Copy: This exquisite book is an impressionistic miracle, an assemblage of short text fragments and collages by an artist trying to make sense of her husband's suicide. That this husband was David Foster Wallace is beautifully beside the point, for the focus here is on the experience, the bleak and necessary journey of grief. Green is a pointed writer, open and at a distance all at once. The effect is unsettling, elliptical, necessarily open-ended and at times brutally revealing: a necessary explication of loss as a fact of daily life.
Artbook: Books on Art & Culture: With fearlessness and grace,Bough Down reports from deep inside the maelstrom of grief. In this profoundly beautiful and intensely moving lament, artist and writer Karen Green conjures the inscrutable space of love and loss, clarity and contradiction, sense and madness.One of the most beautiful expressions of love and loss you will ever read. Bough Down put me in mind somehow of the Portuguese fado: a lament rendered so precisely it becomes luminous and affirmative. This is a profound, lovely, bitterly funny book that fulfills the first requirement of great art: it is magical. —GEORGE SAUNDERS
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Hyphenate - What You See Is - The Pale KingLong article by John Brown Spiers about The Pale King over at Hyphenate. What You See Is. (Could have answered a few of his questions about what was in the original manuscript and what Pietsch was trying to do, by reading and watching a few of the interviews with him here and having a look at the symposium last year...) [Thanks, Horatio] Quarterly Conversation Review of The Last InterviewBarrett Hathcock positively reviews David Foster Wallace: The Last Interview for The Quarterly Conversation: In a Google-ready era, a book like David Foster Wallace: The Last Interview does not necessarily need to exist. It collects the actual last interview Wallace conducted, which was with the Wall Street Journal in May of 2008 before he committed suicide on September 12 of the same year, along with five other interviews. All of these are readily available online with just a modicum of digging, and it seems that anyone who might be interested enough in Wallace to buy a book of interviews with him would have already read most of these by now.So why does this book exist, and should you buy it? (Let’s get this question out of the way early.) Absolutely. Even though you can get these interviews elsewhere, it’s nice to have them collected here as part of Melville House’s consistent and pleasurable Last Interview series. Continue reading... Grab David Foster Wallace: The Last Interview from Amazon now. 90's, Rainforests, Reviews, Mashup Fiction and MoreHere's a grab bag of Wallace related bits and pieces from the last month or so that have passed through my twitter feed or email and not made it here to the main site (all the Aaron Swartz stuff in a future update).
(Did I miss anything significant? Let me know.) The Everlasting Kenyon SpeechElizabeth Lopatto (previously) contacted me in August last year about Wallace's Kenyon commencement speech to ask if I could help out with some of the back story for how it spread so far and wide online. I was able to put her in touch with Devin Thompson, who transcribed footage he recorded at the event. You can read all about it in her piece for the Kenyon College Alumni Bulletin, Everlasting Speech: [...]The speech was transcribed at least twice, once by Kaelin Alexander '07, from what he recalls as a VHS tape, and once by Devin Thompson, a Wallace fan and student at the Nazarene University in Mount Vernon who came to Kenyon to hear the address. Alexander was asked to make his transcription by the alumni affairs office for a pamphlet containing the Baccalaureate and Commencement addresses. That wasn't the version at large on the Internet, though. The most widespread version, until the publication of This Is Water , was Thompson's. Thompson had recorded Wallace's delivery of the speech on a Hi-8 camera and made a transcription of it as a favor to Wallace-l, an e-mail list devoted to the author. Unlike Alexander, Thompson included pauses, verbal tics, and extemporaneous remarks such as Wallace's introductory aside-"If anybody feels like perspiring [cough], I'd advise you to go ahead, because I'm sure going to. In fact I'm gonna" (and Thompson here includes Wallace pulling out his bandanna to wipe his face)-and his on-the-fly self-editing ("et cetera, et cetera, cutting stuff out because this is a long ceremony"). Thompson wore out the tape transcribing the speech, then sent it to Wallace-l in May 2005. The text went wide.[...] --- Bonus content from Elizabeth Lopatto's blog, amateur hour - Kenyon Article Marginalia. |
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