Finally made it to a computer! Christmas hols down on Australia's south coast of NSW has been keeping me busy. I've been tweeting bits and pieces if you've been keeping an eye on the sidebar or twitter, otherwise here's a collection of unsorted DFW pieces to keep you reading over the break - and while I'm updating less frequently.
- Wayne Brenner's short review of The Last Interview for The Austin Chronicle. (26/12/12)
- David Foster Wallace: Life, Writing, Addiction, and Recovery over at Points: The Blog of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society. (24/12/12)
- Fiction Advocate's Year of David Foster Wallace Pt. 1.(20/12/12)
- D.T. Max over a Page-Turner, D.F.W.: The Biographical Enterprise W/R/T Fiction. (20/12/12)
- Daniel Green's essay, Just Plain Doomed. (19/12/12)
- Henry Veggian's paper, Anachronisms of Authority: Authorship, Exchange Value, and David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King. pdf (19/12/12)
- And congratulations to D.T. Max for making Michiko Kakutani’s 10 Favorite Books of 2012 with his biography. (17/12/12)
- Nat Segnit's review of Both Flesh and Not for The Independent. (15/12/12)
- Leo Robson's review for The New Statesman, The literary legacy of David Foster Wallace Both Flesh and Not: Essays - review. (13/12/12)
- Parker Tarun for The Cipher, How Not To Remmeber David Foster Wallace. (12/12/12)
- Robert Fay blogs for Full Stop, In the Footsteps of David Foster Wallace. (11/12/12)
- Real Time Arts: Berlin Performs David Foster Wallace
- Matthew Walther for Prospect, Forget the Footnotes. (7/12/12)
- Tim Groeland's mutli DFW review for The Dublin Review of Books, A Ghost is Born. (3/12/12)
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Regardless, feel free to discuss away here, though I do disagree with you. Mostly because of the interactions I've had with D.T. Max, researchers, fact-checkers, and others that contributed to the information in the bio. I do know the bio was fact checked by multiple people from multiple perspectives.
I didn't see the bio as mining the fiction for non-fiction. Max didn't discover these things in the fiction first, they were found in the research, interviews, recounts, letters etc. I'm not uncomfortable with this at all. Some of the similarities were certainly worth mentioning because they gave me a window into Wallace's writing process; the stuff I found most interesting in the bio.