The Howling Fantods

Three days to go until OzWallace 2017 in Melbourne, Australia!

I'll be live tweeting updates and pics using the #ozwallace hashtag... and hopefully some other special things too...

A couple of recent paperback releases of excellent monographs that are absolute must reads if you're interested in current Wallace criticism.

Clare Hayes-Brady - The Unspeakable Failures of David Foster Wallace: Language, Identity, and Resistance

David Hering - David Foster Wallace - Fiction and Form

(Have I missed any?)

If you haven't been checking regularly, it's worth following the posts by The International David Foster Wallace Society's Diversity Team.

The most recent post is a list of scholarly pieces by women about DFW - some great stuff in this list!

Also worth having a look at is Nina Berman's, In Response to “One Woman, Who Loves DFW, Talks”.

Apologies for all the Wallace related things I missed posting earlier in the year... one of them was the release of the special David Foster Wallace Issue of Orbit from pynchon.net. Well worth your time.

Yesterday Orbit published Adam Kelly's response to the paper from the special issue by Edward Jackson and Joel Nicholson-Roberts.

Super interesting.

Read them both here:

White Guys: Questioning Infinite Jest's New Sincerity, Edward Jackson and Joel Nicholson-Roberts.

David Foster Wallace and New Sincerity Aesthetics: A Reply to Edward Jackson and Joel Nicholson-Roberts, Adam Kelly.

The OzWallace 2017 draft schedule has been released and I couldn't be more excited. Check out the incredible breadth of papers and panels on offer. See you in Melbourne on the 1st of September.

(I'm also somewhat worried and excited for Friday night's, "The All Singing, All Dancing Howling Fantods Spectacular and Puppet Show, with a Cast of Thousands, including Nick Maniatis, Shelley Grieves-Zerkel and Tony McMahon." - hope to meet some of you there!)

Two very entertaining episodes have appeared recently, one from The DFW17 conference (great to see some of you online when it was recorded live) and another with fellow Australian, Grace Chipperfield.

Episode 29 - Live from the ISU David Foster Wallace Conference, featuring Charlie Harris and Jim Plath

Episode 30 - Discussing David Foster Wallace with Grace Chipperfield

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