The Howling Fantods

The New Yorker online has a new work of short fiction by David Foster Wallace available. Click on the link to read Good People. {comment}

 

Before heading to bed last night I posted a link to the ZEIT Online David Foster Wallace interview (in German) along with a request for an English translation...

 

By this morning Stefan had translated the interview and sent it to the fantods for all to read. Thanks, Stefan! {comment}

Barrett Hathcock, over at Conversational Reading, has been blogging his read of Infinite Jest. He's finally finished and has written about the experience. You can find it here: Infinite Jest Digested: Part One.

MTV movie news today provides some more info about the Brief Interviews with Hideous Men movie, including further details about the plot and the suggestion that David Foster Wallace has read, and was impressed by, the script.

Last night I sat down to watch what I had hoped would be one of the best matches of the 2007 Australian Open. Andy Roddick had played some amazing matches in the lead up to this semi-final, and I was softening to the evolution of his game; more patience, less anger. Roger Federer hadn't yet dropped a set. I was convinced that this would be one of those 'match of the tournament' situations.

 

It was. And it wasn't. 

What appears to be a new interview with David Foster Wallace is available to read over at Zeit Online. The interview is published in German but with the help of google language tools it is quite possible to draw out some very interesting points. Most exciting are DFW's comments on some of his short stories in Oblivion and Brief Interviews with Hideous Men. {comment}