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Interview with David Foster Wallace by German TV ZDF in 2003 (English language). Full clip, unedited.
Zadie Smith's essay "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: The Difficult Gifts of David Foster Wallace," from her 2009 collection Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays. File 3 of 12
Zadie Smith's essay "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: The Difficult Gifts of David Foster Wallace," from her 2009 collection Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays. File 2 of 12.
David Foster Wallace reads "Suicide as a Sort of Present," from Brief Interviews with Hideous Men.
American author David Foster Wallace sat down with Michael Silverblatt of KCRW's Bookworm in 1996, shortly after Wallace's novel Infinite Jest was published. This was their first of a memorable series of conversations. www.kcrw.com
Charlie Rose interviewed the late David Foster Wallace, a contemporary American author, on March 27, 1997. DFW: Feminists are all saying this, though—feminists are saying white males have—"Okay, I'm going to sit down and write this enormous book and impose my phallus on the consciousness of the world." CR: And you say? DFW: If that was going on it was going on at a level of awareness I do NOT want to have access to. www.charlierose.com
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...cemented Wallace's reputation as a major American literary figure. The archive includes the earliest appearance of the David Foster Wallace signature on "Viking Poem," written when he was six or seven years old. Known for his excellent vocabulary, Wallace...
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Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/09/david-foster-wallace-arch_n_491396.html
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'A eulogy to a great literary talent' ... David Foster Wallace. Photograph: Steve Liss/Getty/Time Life
Timing both good and bad is usually out of our hands. As such, you can only feel for the young American actor John Krasinski – star of the US version
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Guardian Unlimited
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2009/oct/09/david-foster-wallace-film-adaptation
The 4th weather forecast featuring a beloved combination of live music, David Foster Wallace (RIP) extract from his stunning essay memoir Tennis, Trig etc (see Harpers Mag online for complete text) and Nerf555 Public Enemy infused exit music. Bella. Bella.
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In this week's Book Club, I took stock of the collected tennis works of author and essayist David Foster Wallace, who died last September. I conclude here with his final major word on the subject. Fittingly, it was about Roger Federer.
Ten years after
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Peter Bodo's TennisWorld
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/concrete-elbow-tignor/~3/ybMxbDup4_M/book-club-mozart-and-metallica.html
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The Book Club is flying solo this week. That’s because charter (and only other) member Kamakshi Tandon is kind of busy with something called law school. Nevertheless, it seemed like the right time to take stock of the small but influential collected
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Peter Bodo's TennisWorld
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/concrete-elbow-tignor/~3/O2_LFfxeyvQ/book-club-the-authoritative-pang.html
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The Book Club is flying solo this week. That’s because charter (and only other) member Kamakshi Tandon is kind of busy with something called law school. Nevertheless, it seemed like the right time to take stock of the small but influential collected
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Peter Bodo's TennisWorld
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/concrete-elbow-tignor/~3/l8ciNhduKHk/book-club-tornado-of-words.html
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"Everything I write ends up being about loneliness," said the late writer David Foster Wallace in a 1999 interview on the radio show Bookworm. In that conversation, Wallace was trying to get at the core of his Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, a
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Dallas Observer
http://www.dallasobserver.com/2009-09-24/film/trying-for-tribute-john-krasinski-makes-a-mess-of-hideous-men
Actor John Krasinski reads Interview #11 from David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
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It's a small, great story about the writer, Michael Casper, who discovers, by going through his record collection, that David Foster Wallace named some of the characters in Infinite Jest after the real-life
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Gawker
http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gawker/full/~3/J3JXiaYYOpA/david-foster-wallace-one-year-later
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John Moe is a writer and public radio host now living in St Paul, Minnesota. He is the author of the book Conservatize Me and his short humor pieces appear in several anthologies as well as on McSweeneys.net.
I’m still upset at the author for being a
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Daring Fireball
http://infinitesummer.org/archives/1716
one line of a short story - starring: caterina pogorzelski. 2009
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Almost a year ago, on September 12 2008, the novelist, essayist and teacher
David Foster Wallace hanged himself at his house in Claremont, California.
His death deprived American fiction of one of its most extraordinary
talents: a writer whose style
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The Telegraph
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/6021666/David-Foster-Wallace-remembered.html
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Almost a year ago, on September 12 2008, the novelist, essayist and teacher
David Foster Wallace hanged himself at his house in Claremont, California.
His death deprived American fiction of one of its most extraordinary
talents: a writer whose style
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The Telegraph
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/6021666/David-Foster-Wallace.html
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...is an industry expert in author portraiture. She has worked with Truman Capote, Haruki Murakami, Joyce Carol Oates, David Foster Wallace, Cormac McCarthy, Alice Munro... the list goes on. She shares some of her more recent work with The Picture Show....
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NPR
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111068638&ft=1&f=1008
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...few weeks ago, I wrote the foreword for Infinite Summer, a summer-long collective read of Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace's big-ass novel and one of my favorite books. That piece was actually my second draft. My first attempt was a list of advice on reading...
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kottke.org
http://www.kottke.org/09/07/how-to-read-infinite-jest
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July 14, 2009 | There are many ways to cope with death, but founding an online book club is a pretty unique approach. "When I heard that David Foster Wallace had died, it was like remembering an assignment that had been due the day before," said
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Salon
http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/07/14/infinite_summer/index.html?source=rss&aim=/books/feature
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Chris’s post touches on one of the surprising revelations of Infinite Jest so far: David Foster Wallace is an excellent reporter. But he’s a bit more uneven as a novelist.
The best sections of the book — the sections with the most truth and texture and
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A Supposedly Funny Blog
http://asupposedlyfunblog.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/the-importance-of-reporting/
David Foster Wallace reads BI #19 from Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, 1999.
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A great journalist once said: Write every piece twice.
David Foster Wallace seems to have taken this advice to heart. Reading Infinite Jest, it’s hard not to notice a lot of overlap with his non-fiction.
Sometimes it’s a quick turn of phrase, like when
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A Supposedly Funny Blog
http://asupposedlyfunblog.wordpress.com/2009/07/09/reduce-reuse-rewrite/
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...remarkable, moral person' ... the writer David Foster Wallace. Photograph: Steve Liss/Getty/Time Life The journalist DT Max has signed a deal with Viking in the US to publish a biography of the late American writer David Foster Wallace, once described by Zadie...
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Guardian Unlimited
http://feeds.guardian.co.uk/~r/theguardian/books/rss/~3/N6yz_xe0Tj8/david-foster-wallace-biography
Our interpretation of a scene from David Foster Wallace's novel, The Broom Of The System. Cast - Dr. Jay: Ilana Selli; Lenore: Steph Chocko Crew - camerawoman: Nicole Tchorowski Thanks for watching!!
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Earlier this month, editors at publishing houses across New York received two separate book proposals for biographies of the late David Foster Wallace. One came from the journalist and critic D. T. Max, the other from Rolling Stone contributing editor
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New York Observer
http://www.observer.com/2009/media/dueling-foster-wallace-two-bios-hit-market-one-sold
David Foster Wallace reads "Yet Another Example of the Porousness of Certain Borders (VI)" from Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (1999).
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Why he’s daunting: David Foster Wallace wrote about lots of subjects with lots of strategies, all of them vehement. He could be vehemently searching, digressive, playful, pointed, self-conscious, or sad. He could be vehemently pedantic, moralistic,
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The A.V. Club
http://feeds.theonion.com/~r/avclub/daily/~3/5GZxYwkMJ9A/
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Why he’s daunting: David Foster Wallace wrote about lots of subjects with lots of strategies, all of them vehement. He could be vehemently searching, digressive, playful, pointed, self-conscious, or sad. He could be vehemently pedantic, moralistic,
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The A.V. Club
http://www.avclub.com/articles/david-foster-wallace,28537/?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=feeds&utm_source=channel_books
David Foster Wallace reads BI #30 from Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, 1999.
David Foster Wallace reads BI #36 from Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, 1999.
David Foster Wallace reads BI#15 from Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, 1999.
David Foster Wallace reads BI#15 from Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, 1999.
David Foster Wallace reading A Radically Condensed History of Postindustrial Life from Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (1999).
Written and Directed by Justin Grace/ Cast: British Announcer - Justin Grace/ Main Girl/Miranda July - Sarah Dooley/ Pig Latin Guy/Actual David Foster Wallace - Jake Green/ Irritating Guyr/Thomas Pynchon - Aidan Gould/ High Director/Sensitive Guy/David Foster Wallace - Zack Sheppard/ Spanish Director/Teacher - Yasmeen Jahwar/ Meta Cop #1 - Siobhan Gilbert/ Meta Cop #2 - Evan Johnston/ JD Salinger - Michael Grinspan/ Accompanist - Alish Erman ... latenite columbia theater ...
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In the autumn of 2005, an e-mail message with the unpromising subject header “Thought you’d like this!!!” landed in my in-box. The sender, a family friend, was an incurable forwarder of two-year-old John Kerry jokes, alerts for nonexistent computer
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The New York Times
http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=81dfe302dfc036dd22167376f6b73091
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This Is Water:
Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
By David Foster Wallace
Little, Brown
144 pp., $14.99
When David Foster Wallace took his own life on Sept. 12, 2008, aftershocks reverberated
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Christian Science Monitor
http://features.csmonitor.com/books/2009/04/14/this-is-water/
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to transcend boredom reflect Wallace's preoccupation with the concept of "mindfulness" — the idea, as he put it in a 2005 commencement speech, that you should be "conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you
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Contra Costa Times
http://www.contracostatimes.com/entertainment/ci_11897487?source=rss
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to transcend boredom reflect Wallace's preoccupation with the concept of "mindfulness" — the idea, as he put it in a 2005 commencement speech, that you should be "conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you
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Contra Costa Times
http://www.contracostatimes.com/books/ci_11897487?source=rss
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Decisions and revisions ... David Foster Wallace reads at the 2002 New Yorker festival Photograph: Keith Bedford/Getty Images
At the same time, with posthumous publications, there are also concerns. Wallace was a compulsive drafter and re-drafter, and
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Guardian Unlimited
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/mar/05/unfinished-foster-wallace
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I'm feeling, predictably, of two minds about The New Yorker’s epic 12,000-word article about the life and death of David Foster Wallace.
On one hand, I have gratitude and admiration for its author, D.T. Max. This is a heroic feat of research and
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New York Magazine
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/nymag/vulture/~3/TE-Ym-3oa6I/anderson_wrestling_with_the_mi.html
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...services: The Pale King, will be published in 2010. Getty Images All Things Considered, March 4, 2009 · When writer David Foster Wallace committed suicide last September, he left behind hundreds of pages of an unfinished novel that he'd been working on for...
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NPR
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101434881&ft=1&f=1035
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...unfinished novel by David Foster Wallace, the American author who committed suicide in September 2008, has been discovered and is due to be published next year, 14 years after his last novel Infinite Jest. The 200 or so draft pages of The Pale King were found...
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Guardian Unlimited
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/mar/03/unfinished-foster-wallace
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Since the sad news of David Foster Wallace's death this past Friday, tributes and appreciations for him and his work have started to pour forth. Well they should. Many, if not most, will be by people who knew him, his writing, his work as a teacher,
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Publishers Weekly
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MistPlace/~3/MgMBP6Ta-JA/530033253.html
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...It comes as no surprise that there was something unfinished. When David Foster Wallace committed suicide in September, he left behind roughly one-third of a manuscript that, apparently, will see the light of day by 2010 through Wallace's publisher, Little,...
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Los Angeles Times
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/03/the-last-tycoon.html
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...cold and gray and the dead kelp like the hair of the drowned, and it stayed that way despite all attempts. The writer David Foster Wallace committed suicide on September 12th of last year. His wife, Karen Green, came home to find that he had hanged himself...
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The Stranger
http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2009/03/02/attention_david_foster_wallac
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Author David Foster Wallace, seen here during the New Yorker Magazine Festival in New York in 2002, killed himself in September. He had been suffering from depression for most of his life. (Keith Bedford/Getty)
With files from the Associated Press
An
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CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2009/03/02/fosterwallace-unfinished-novel.html?ref=rss
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