December 2009
24 posts
A shortish review/rant on the soon to be over...
I’ll never forget where I was when this decade started. I was in my kitchen making my daily ketchup omelet when I felt my iPhone buzz in my pocket, alerting me to a new text message. It was 3 in the afternoon, and I remember smelling and hearing the coffee brewing as I slipped the iPhone from my pocket and seeing the text message from my friend Marty: “Turn on CNN”. Expecting...
Dec 31st
best of craigslist: A letter to my dead girlfriend... →
while commentators everywhere declare the internet the death of writing and reading, people are out there living and dying and writing and reading.
Dec 30th
“There’s the other thing: No guilt! The idea of a guilty pleasure?...”
– Andrew W.K. Interview via this insanely interesting metafilter thread
Dec 30th
Dave Eggers interview: the heartbreak kid -... →
Dec 30th
“But Wallace’s fractal-like attention to detail makes for surprisingly compulsive...”
– The waiting is the hardest part: 32 of our most anticipated 2010 entertainments Actually it won’t (probably) have footnotes.
Dec 29th
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“I’m reading David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, and I seem to have...”
– Terry Gilliam’s Three-Reel Circus | Mother Jones
Dec 22nd
William Safire Rules of Writing | Apostate Café →
- And I would never make any of these mistakes, never ever!!
Dec 21st
David Foster Wallace - Died Too Young - Newsweek... →
- In Peace
Dec 21st
The Pale King - What we have so far
The Compliance Branch (PDF link) Good People Wiggle Room All That Irrelevant Bob (2 ms pages): 1 and 2 Possibly the three Lannan pieces is a TPK excerpt as well (PDF) - From wallace-i archives
Dec 20th
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The LipDub As a Way Out of Institutional Cynicism,...
In which LipDub’s have the power to turn an abstract institution into a group of people just like you and where cynicism is washed away while watching kids dance and sing or a hospital janitor dance with his mop and you just wish all corporations would just drop the $100m ad budgets and cut checks to charities and produce silly LipDubs of their employees and CXOs dancing to I Gotta Feeling...
Dec 19th
“Because New Orleans has created such unique cultural art in terms of music and...”
– DAVID SIMON - Vice Magazine
Dec 18th
hrrrthrrr: “You know when you’re sitting on a chair and you lean back so you’re just on two legs then you lean too far and you almost fall over but at the last second you catch yourself? I feel like that all the time.” — Stephen Wright Holy shit that’s scary.
Dec 16th
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Finger Flexion Redux →
Good analysis on Wallace’s use of “scare quotes” in “All That”, his recent fiction in the New Yorker.
Dec 16th
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“Asked for clarification, though, Franzen gave what might actually have been his...”
– The Millions: Jonathan Franzen, Honesty and the Lines of Literature
Dec 14th
Yes, We Are Still Missing DFW →
Some scary stuff in here: I tried to fix the problems (repetitions, confusing syntax, red herrings that referred to other parts of the book, etc.)
Dec 14th
Girlfriend Stops Reading David Foster Wallace... →
Old but still great.
Dec 14th
Peripeteia →
- Aristotle wrote “The finest form of Discovery is one attended by Peripeties, like that which goes with the Discovery in Oedipus…”
Dec 14th
All That : The New Yorker →
New David Foster Wallace fiction.
Dec 7th
"Westward the course of empire takes its way" →
AKA Wallace’s story from Girl With Curious Hair
Dec 4th
“The last essay in my book considers the work of David Foster Wallace, a writer...”
– Zadie Smith on the rise of the essay
Dec 2nd