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In the David Foster Wallace Archive - Part 1

(Part of the DFW archive via The Art of Construction)

The Art of Construction blog has the first of three posts about RR's visit to the David Foster Wallace archive at the Harry Ransom Center of the University of Texas:

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I returned from Austin a few weeks ago and while there was able to spend 5 hours examining various documents in the David Foster Wallace (DFW) archive at the Harry Ransom Center (HRC) of the University of Texas. And so, I was also able to examine hand written drafts, heavily notated typescripts and other fragments from the birth of Infinite Jest (IJ). Wow. I hope this short essay will transmit a sense of the humanity and process of Wallace as writer and man.  I paged through books from his personal library w/ his marginalia inscribed; I chose books that I have some familiarity with: The Moviegoer – Walker Percy, Against Interpretation – Susan Sontag, and The Fire Next Time – James Baldwin. Pretty cool stuff, which we can imagine indicate the portions of the texts he found most salient – especially the hand written notes in the Percy, which he taught, at Pomona, I believe.

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Continue reading, In the David Foster Wallace Archive: Part 1/3

I'm looking forward to the next 2 parts.

 

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