The Howling Fantods

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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I can't believe how close we are to the OzWallace 2017! The first Australian David Foster Wallace conference, September 1-3 2017.

Have you registered yet? I'll be there.

I get to visit my favourite (big) city in Australia, Melbourne. I can't wait.

Why should you join us there?

• Keynote by David Hering. (Listen to him speak about his wonderful monograph, David Foster Wallace: Fiction +Form on Ep 12 of The Great Concavity Podcast.)
• Plenary address by Lucas Thompson. (Listen to him speak about his outstanding monograph, and the first volume of Bloomsbury's David Foster Wallace Studies series, Global Wallace: David Foster Wallace and World Literature on Ep 28 of The Great Concavity Podcast)
• Diversity committee from the International David Foster Wallace Society to appear.
• IDFWS President and Vice-President to appear at OzWallace, Matt Bucher and Mike Miley.
• Plus all the people presenting papers that I can't wait to let you all know about when the programme is released.

Only a few days left to get your proposals in. Don't forget!

Call For Papers Deadline Extended to June 30 2017!

A slight extension to the OzWallace 2017 CFP has been announced, so if you're keen to present your David Foster Wallace paper at OzWallace you've got a tiny extension to get your paper proposal in.

Details can be found in the previous OzWallace 2017 call for papers post or over at the OzWallace 2017 Facebook page.

OzWallace 2017 Web Page

In addition you can now visit the official OzWallace web page over at http://www.dfwsociety.org/ozwallace/ where you can register and pay for the conference.

I'm attending and hope to see and meet many of you there.