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17 Jan 2018, 5:33 am
The Awl is ending, the NYT reports.Over the years, there were viral stories about how to cook a steak and David Foster Wallace’s private self-help library, as well as popular essays providing pointed advice to young people and exploring a writer’s evolving relationship with death.Many of the writers went on to distinguish themselves. [read post]
16 Jan 2018, 5:41 am
"Scalia's quote about Trump is getting featured in some news stories, but I'd like to call your attention to 2 other things that I saw in the first few pages of the book, which is all that is visible at the Amazon link.First: Scalia, teenage heartthrob and, later, the grownup with groupies (click to enlarge):Second: David Foster Wallace (initially referred to by Scalia as "this man"): [read post]
15 Jan 2018, 3:47 pm
I've said a few times that I love the nonfiction essays of David Foster Wallace but I can't force myself into the fiction. [read post]
30 Dec 2017, 3:00 pm
You might remember that I was reading the David Foster Wallace story "The Suffering Channel" when I took an off ramp marked "squunched. [read post]
27 Dec 2017, 8:31 am
Anyway, what fascinates me in my little google search is that David Foster Wallace does not get credit for the first use of "squunch. [read post]
26 Dec 2017, 1:33 pm
And ham.That makes me want to quote this one sentence from a David Foster Wallace story I've been reading, because of the way it goes on and on from one thing to another, yet all connected, making sense:The lone time that Atwater had believed he was seeing his own father smile, it turned out to have been a grimace which presaged the massive infarction that had sent the man forward to lie prone in the sand of the horseshoe pit as the shoe itself sailed over the stake, the half… [read post]
24 Dec 2017, 8:20 am
Also reviewed in the Post is The Gifted Generation: When Government Was Good by David Goldfield.In The New York Review of Books is a review of Gareth Dale's new biography, Karl Polanyi: A Life on the Left. [read post]
20 Dec 2017, 3:15 pm
A passage in David Lipsky's "Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace. [read post]
19 Dec 2017, 8:55 am
You can tell by the title: "Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself" (Subtitle: "A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace"). [read post]
18 Dec 2017, 4:19 am
"David Foster Wallace, quoted in "Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace," by David Lipsky.I'm reading this book after watching the movie based on this book, "The End of the Tour" (which is free on Amazon Prime). [read post]
15 Dec 2017, 9:30 pm
Wallace Center at the FDR Presidential Library and Home. [read post]
8 Nov 2017, 6:00 am
Dalloway and of The Great Gatsby (edited by Jo-Ann Wallace and by Michael Nowlin, respectively), for example, are to my mind unrivalled. [read post]
27 Oct 2017, 3:00 am
David Guice is retiring from his position as the Chief Deputy Secretary for Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice at the end of this month. [read post]
9 Oct 2017, 1:13 pm
Its merger of state and private power is like something from David Foster Wallace or Neal Stephenson, but considerably darker. [read post]
1 Oct 2017, 3:00 am
President Carter played a key role in the Camp David peace accords, but he also struggled with Congress and the media. [read post]
4 Aug 2017, 9:30 pm
Roosevelt Library: The New Deal: The Grandchildren Speak, with James Roosevelt, Jr., David Wallace Douglas, June Hopkins and Tomlin Perkins Coggeshall. [read post]
10 Jul 2017, 5:06 pm
New York Magazine – David Wallace-Wells: “It is, I promise, worse than you think. [read post]
6 Jul 2017, 4:35 pm
The perfect game for Wallace. [read post]
27 Jun 2017, 9:24 am
This short paper shows how international law mirrors David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Jest". [read post]
27 Jun 2017, 9:24 am
This short paper shows how international law mirrors David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Jest". [read post]
