With it being 50 years since David Foster Wallace was born there has been an overwhelming amount of reflection about the life and work of DFW. I had to restart my phone / twitter aggregator earlier today, the sheer number of tweets caused it to go and sit in the corner and refuse to speak to me. I'm uncomfortable about making something big of this day for the wrong reasons. I guess the increased activity online shows just how much respect Wallace has out there. On days like this my thoughts go to his family.
I'll never stop missing him.
Below are a selection of the things posted over the last day or so (I'll update as more appear):
- The Awl. Carrie Frye's, 46 Things to Read and See for David Foster Wallace's 50th Birthday.
- The Classical. The Deep Seams: A Search for Fun in David Foster Wallace's Peoria by Kyle Beachy.
- The Composites, Hal Incandenza, Infinite Jest.
- Letters of Note, I don't enjoy this war one bit.
- Berfrois. Daniel Roberts', The Depressed Person in The Marriage Plot.
- The Point. Jon Baskin's, Wallace, Franzen, and the Question of Realism. Ignoring a few little errors, this is a fantastic essay - particularly the Chris Fogle analysis. [Don't miss Baskin's earlier piece either, Death is Not the End David Foster Wallace: His Legacy and his Critics from 2009]
- Reposted over at Open Culture (it keeps getting rediscovered!) is DFW's 2003 ZDF interview, David Foster Wallace: The Big, Uncut Interview (2003) [More interviews here].
- NY Daily News: Alexander Nazaryan's, David Foster Wallace at 50: Why he still matters and always will (21/2/12).
- Salon.com: Daniel B. Roberts', Consider David Foster Wallace, journalist (21/2/12).
New links today:
- In 1997 Alec Michod wrote DFW a letter. DFW wrote back.
- Flavorwire. Emily Temple's, Awesome Tattoos Inspired by David Foster Wallace.
- Ryan Blanck's Letters to DFW, 50.
- Metafilter Discussion and link thread, You are, unfortunately, a fiction writer.
- Forrest Wickman for Slate's Browbeat.
- The Shallow Brigade, happy bday, dfw.
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