21. Lobster Tale Lands Writer In Hot Water - The Boston Globe Imagine that you are the editor of Gourmet magazine and you nail down the allusive and sometimes incomprehensible david foster wallace ( probably the most http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2004/08/05/lobster_tale_lands_writer_in_

Movies Restaurants Food Calendar ... Books ALEX BEAM Lobster tale lands writer in hot water August 5, 2004 Imagine that you are the editor of Gourmet magazine and you nail down the allusive and sometimes incomprehensible David Foster Wallace ("probably the most important novelist of his generation" The Boston Globe) to write an article for you. The two of you bat around a few ideas and you settle on … the Maine Lobster Festival. Wallace attended last year's festival with his girlfriend and his parents, one of whom hails from Maine's potato country. His 6,000-word dispatch, now available in Gourmet's August issue, ranks as one of the most extraordinary New England-themed magazine articles of all time. It is alternately jarring, disjointed, contrapuntal, maddeningly long, and enviably brilliant. Wallace kisses off the festival "cheesy"; "boring"; "full of irksome little downers" and devotes two-thirds of the article to a physiological and philosophical meditation on the bioethics of lobster boiling. "I wasn't quite prepared for this," admits Gourmet editor Ruth Reichl. "I was blown away. I never in a million years thought this particular issue" lobster-cide "would come up." In her note at the front of the magazine, she describes the article as "hilarious, thought-provoking, very uncomfortable."

22. Roger Federer As Religious Experience - Tennis - New York Times By david foster wallace. Published August 20, 2006. Skip to next paragraph. Enlarge this Image. Rob Tringali/Sports Chrome http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/sports/playmagazine/20federer.html?pagewanted=

23. N+1 david foster wallace! Where to go after Infinite Jest? david foster wallace’s 1996 opus now looks like the central American novel of the past thirty years, http://www.nplusonemag.com/wallace.html

Web Archive Issue Three Issue Two Issue One ... Contact [From Issue One] David Foster Wallace! Where to go after Infinite Jest x End Zone (a wonderful and underrated novel) into Infinite Jest , but Wallace is so securely his own writer, so natural and idiosyncratic in his prose, so committed to his principles of expansion and a circling, shambling refusal to simplify, that the influence seems to flow both ways, and much of early DeLillo comes to read like a ramping-up toward Wallace. It was nice to know, at last, that there was a certifiable genius at work, and one could feel the anticipation mounting for the next Wallace effort, which would not only claim the awards denied Infinite Jest , but also galvanize public discussion in a rare way, like Catch-22 or the first final episode of Friends . Would the new novel be even bigger? (It seemed both logical and unlikely.) Or would Wallace pare out what many considered extraneous, leaving us with the leanest, meanest, 500-page novel in recent memory? When asked about his work-in-progress, Wallace responded by inquiring whether his interlocutor had ever read the pre-Socratic philosopher Parmenides, and, if so, whether he had done so under the influence of hallucinogens. There were rumors that the new novel had to do with porn. Eight years, of course, is not so long to wait.

24. Infinite Jest: Reviews, Articles, & Miscellany Published early in 1996, david foster wallace s remarkable novel .. Check out the david foster wallace website created by Nick Maniatis in Australia. http://www.badgerinternet.com/~bobkat/jesterlist.html

"Infinite Jest" By David Foster Wallace Published early in 1996, David Foster Wallace's remarkable novel Infinite Jest quickly acquired a tremendous level of notoriety for its then 33-year-old author. It's an astonishing work, dense and darkly brilliant. This page collects a number of reviews and articles pertaining to the book, the author, and his oeuvre. here Sven Birkerts's review from the February 1996 issue of the Atlantic Monthly was one of the earliest appraisals of Infinite Jest and it created quite a bit of excitement for the novel. Birkerts slings around alot of faux postmodern academic lingo, and the review has an overheated and breathless quality about it, but it is essential reading. Rather ecstatic Newsweek review (2.12.96 ) by David Gates. Includes a brief interview with Wallace. (Gates is himself an accomplished novelist. Jernigan (1991), a dark comic take on male mid-life dissolution, is well worth a look.) Oft-quoted Newsday review (2.12.96) by Dan Cryer. Very astute review from the online BookPage site , written by Erich Strom (2.96).

25. David Foster Wallace News - The New York Times News about david foster wallace. Commentary and archival information about david foster wallace from The New York Times. http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/w/david_foster_wallac

@import url(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/css/topic/screen/200704/topic.css); Get Home Delivery Log In Register Now Home Page ... Times Topics Sunday, January 27, 2008 Times Topics World U.S. N.Y. / Region ... W > Wallace, David Foster E-MAIL Save David Foster Wallace Marion Ettlinger News about David Foster Wallace, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times. Highlights from the Archives By CHARLES McGRATH When it comes to art, we are a nation of extremists. At the moment, we are living in an age of maximalist novels - books less concerned with le mot juste than with being full service entertainment centers. The trend goes back at least to "Infinite Jest," David Foster Wallace's 1996 epic. April 17, 2005 Books News Hysterical Realism By DANIEL ZALEWSKI The literary critic James Wood has become increasingly exasperated with those enormous, encyclopedic novels like ''The Corrections'' and "Infinite Jest" that contemporary writers keep churning out. December 15, 2002 Magazine News The Grunge American Novel By Frank Bruni March 24, 1996

26. Infinite Jest By David Foster Wallace (kottke.org) by david foster wallace. posted 10 Dec 07 at 0429 pm. Infinite Jest once again proved finite, although it s taken me since August to get through it. http://www.kottke.org/07/12/infinite-jest

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace posted 10 Dec 07 at 04:29 pm Infinite Jest once again proved finite, although it's taken me since August to get through it. This book was such a revelation the first time through that I was afraid of a reread letdown but I enjoyed it even more this time around...and got much more out of the experience too. Right as I was finishing the book, I read a transcription of an interview with Wallace in which interviewer Michael Silverblatt asked him about the fractal-like structure of the novel: MICHAEL SILVERBLATT: I don't know how, exactly, to talk about this book, so I'm going to be reliant upon you to kind of guide me. But something came into my head that may be entirely imaginary, which seemed to be that the book was written in fractals. DAVID FOSTER WALLACE: Expand on that. MS: It occurred to me that the way in which the material is presented allows for a subject to be announced in a small form, then there seems to be a fan of subject matter, other subjects, and then it comes back in a second form containing the other subjects in small, and then comes back again as if what were being described were and I don't know this kind of science, but it just I said to myself this must be fractals. DFW: It's I've heard you were an acute reader. That's one of the things, structurally, that's going on. It's actually structured like something called a Sierpinski Gasket, which is a very primitive kind of pyramidical fractal, although what was structured as a Sierpinski Gasket was the first- was the draft that I delivered to Michael in '94, and it went through some I think 'mercy cuts', so it's probably kind of a lopsided Sierpinski Gasket now. But it's interesting, that's one of the structural ways that it's supposed to kind of come together.

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28. The Modern Word - David Foster Wallace's "Oblivion" In david foster wallace’s oftquoted essay “E Unibus Plurum Televison and US Fiction” (from A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again), the heir-apparent http://www.themodernword.com/reviews/wallace_oblivion.html

Oblivion David Foster Wallace Little, Brown, 2004, ISBN 0316919810, 336 Pages, Hardcover $25.95. [ Browse/Purchase Review by Marie Mundaca My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist Infinite Jest Oblivion Wallace has not abandoned his old tricks. Bleak despair is hidden beneath layers of labyrinthine text, stories so dense they demand re-reading, language so stunning it belies the horror it describes. Oblivion The Garden of Earthly Delights Felonies! What begins like study of the complicated and convoluted world of marketing ends up filled with all the tension and innuendo of your favorite Twilight Zone episode. While focus group leader Terry Schmidt ponders his life with all its disappointments, an ambiguous figure climbs up the outside of the Chicago skyscraper to the confusion of the on-looking crowd, and focus group attendees court insulin shock with each Felony! they eat. There are so many layers of intrigue and subterfuge that the core of the story is hidden in the confusing jumble of who is fooling whom. Wallace intentionally attempts to disorient the reader through a variety of techniques: switching narrative POV mid-paragraph, extended internal dialogs, technical marketing jargon, math (even the name of the marketing group, Delta-Y, evokes complicated mathematical formula). In a way, Wallace is invoking the same glazed-over sugar shock response in the reader that the

29. Wallace, David Foster (Harper's Magazine) by david foster wallace Readings/Fiction, February 2008, 3 pp. by david foster wallace Article, April 2001, 21 pp. Unlikely stories http://www.harpers.org/subjects/DavidFosterWallace

HOME SUBSCRIBE ARCHIVE SUBJECTS ... SKIP to main content USERNAME PASSWORD Subscriber? Lost password? Wallace, David Foster WRITER OF 5 Articles from 1991 to 2001 6 Stories from 1989 to 2008 2 Letters from 1996 SUBJECT OF 3 Articles from 1991 to 1996 1 Review from 1999 HUMAN BEINGS Davis, Lydia Foster, Ken Johnson, Denis Moody, Rick ... The compliance branch by David Foster Wallace Readings/Fiction, February 2008 , 3 pp. Tense present: Democracy, English, and the wars over usage by David Foster Wallace Article, April 2001 , 21 pp. Unlikely stories: The quiet renaissance of American short fiction by Vince Passaro Review

30. Poets&Writers, Inc. david foster wallace is a funny thinker, a library vaudevillian with an “amphetaminic Would it be possible to interview david foster wallace for Poets http://www.pw.org/mag/0601/woodward.htm

From Inspiration to Publication Search site Search archive Magazine Home About the Magazine Archive ... Contact Us in this issue Table of Contents News and Trends Features The Literary Life ... Submission Guidelines online only Teachers Guide Industry Shorts Direct Quotes Postcards ... Podcasts FEATURES in this issue In Search of David Foster Wallace A Profile By Joe Woodward David Foster Wallace CHARLIE POWELL The Broom of the System (Penguin, 1987) and Infinite Jest Girl With Curious Hair (W.W. Norton, 1989), Brief Interviews With Hideous Men (Little, Brown, 1999), and Oblivion Consider the Lobster , published last month by Little, Brown, follows eight years after his first, , also published by Little, Brown, in 1997. Infinite Jest for the Atlantic Monthly Consider the Lobster is dedicated. Would it be possible to interview David Foster Wallace for Consider the Lobster In a last-ditch, Woodward-and-Bernstein effort, I stalked DFW at work. I delivered a plea for an interview, in writing, to his office in Crookshank Hall (a name and place straight out of Harry Potter ) at Pomona College. Silence.

31. Mister Squishy, C'est Moi: David Foster Wallace's Oblivion But upon reading david foster wallace s latest short story collection, Oblivion (out this June in the U.S. and early July here in the U.K.), the term seemed http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/ressentiment

Mister Squishy, c'est moi: David Foster Wallace's Oblivion Kiki Benzon regulated Kiki Benzon Kiki Benzon is an assistant professor in English Literature at the University of Lethbridge. Her review , "Mister Squishy, c'est moi: David Foster Wallace's Oblivion," is posted on ebr 's Critical Ecologies thread. A REVIEW OF: David Foster Wallace, Oblivion Boston: Little, Brown, 329 pp. $25.95 U.S. Emancipation is not a term I much like to use. Too loaded with foggy connotations of even foggier, poorly-defined "breaks" from (nonspecific) (nebulous? well, at least, invariably, nefarious) regimes or states of being. See: the imprecision is infectious. But upon reading David Foster Wallace's latest short story collection, Oblivion (out this June in the U.S. and early July here in the U.K.), the term seemed somehow right. Though only two of the volume's eight stories are, strictly speaking, "new" fictional offerings (the first six have appeared in journals from AGNI to Esquire Oblivion Style reporter, Skip Atwater, producing an article about a defecation "artist," whose ambivalent state, Skip is convinced, comes "very close to the core of the American experience" (283). As in his preceding collection

32. Harper's Magazine: Tense Present. Author david foster wallace. Discussed in this essay david foster wallace is a contributing editor to Harper s Magazine and the author of the novel http://instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/DFW_present_tense.html

Harper's Magazine April, 2001 Tense Present Democracy, English, and the Wars over Usage Author: David Foster Wallace Discussed in this essay A Dictionary of Modern American Usage , by Bryan A. Garner. Oxford University Press, 1998. 723 pages. $35. A Dictionary of Modern English Usage , by H. W. Fowler. Oxford University Press, 1926. Rev. by Sir Ernest Gowers, 1965. 725 pages. The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language , by Steven Pinker. William Morrow and Company, 1994. 494 pages. Webster's Dictionary of English Usage , E. W. Gilman, ed. Merriam-Webster Inc., 1989. 978 pages. Usage and Abusage: A Guide to Good English , by Eric Partridge. Hamish Hamilton, 1957.392 pages. Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language Dilige et quod vis fac. Did you know that probing the seamy underbelly of U.S. lexicography reveals ideological strife and controversy and intrigue and nastiness and fervor on a nearly hanging-chad scale? For instance, did you know that some modern dictionaries are notoriously liberal and others notoriously conservative, and that certain conservative dictionaries were actually conceived and designed as corrective responses to the "corruption" and "permissiveness" of certain liberal dictionaries? That the oligarchic device of having a special "Distinguished Usage Panel ... of outstanding professional speakers and writers" is an attempted compromise between the forces of egalitarianism and traditionalism in English, but that most linguistic liberals dismiss the Usage Panel as mere sham-populism? Did you know that U.S. lexicography even had a seamy underbelly?

33. Is DFW Washed Up? : Edward Champion’s Filthy Habits Filed Under wallace, david foster. dfw.jpg It goes without saying that I’ve been a DFW fan ever since reading Infinite Jest in 1997. http://www.edrants.com/is-dfw-washed-up/

Home Previously About/Contact/Submit Ed ... RSS Is DFW Washed Up? Written by Posted on August 23, 2006 Filed Under Wallace, David Foster Infinite Jest Infinite Pest , but once I fell into its groove about 75 pages in, I was tickled by its plot shuffling, its endlessly inventive endnotes, its penchant for detail, and its gleeful sense of the absurd. The book was, outside of Pynchon, one of my first reading experiences involving a mammoth postmodern novel. Ten years have gone by since Infinite Jest was the Novel That All Smart People Are Reading. Sure enough, a tenth anniversary volume is in the works from Little, Brown. Since Infinite Jest , Wallace has produced two volumes of fiction and two volumes of essays as Wallace did with the recent Federer essay , is simply too whorish for a man of his obvious talents. The stories in Oblivion remain cold, needlessly dense, mired in academese and marketing jargon, and are, for the most part, all fixated on the same cartoonish emotion of detached anxiety. Banging the same drum over the course of a short story collection is, for my money, a cardinal sin. (Even if it is DFW here, it simply must be said.) The essays in Consider the Lobster an essay Atlantic One looks upon the strange irony of Wallace touring the country for a book while ignoring virtually all interviews and wonders if Wallace is only putting out these books or accepting these gigs to keep a little extra cash coming in. You do what you have to do, I guess. But living at the whims of Bonnie Nadell (or anyone) seems a bit puerile for a man of 44.

34. David Foster Wallace On LibraryThing | Catalog Your Books Online There are 125 conversations about david foster wallace s books. Member ratings Disambiguation notice. Users with books by david foster wallace http://www.librarything.com/author/wallacedavidfoster

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Go to content Go to navigation Go to search The Know(e) The Consilience of Learning Home About Archives Chess ... Programs Search Browse education english filtering philosophy reading technology tip RSS Atom David Foster Wallace Version 6 - Updated 4/5/07 here Wallace-l members can download all of the audio and pdf files to go along with the database. Not a member of wallace-l? Please see this link. Listed in chronological order Listed by title Listed by author ... Listed by the name of publication I have added a couple of new pieces as pdfs. The can be found at: Finally, instructions on how to read a BibTex file, future goals for the bibliography, and updates on what is included, can be read in the release notes Also, the less-than-perfect mp3 recordings of the David Foster Wallace/David Shields round table discussion at the University of Washington in the year ninety-something are still available: the intro part one part two part three ... part four , and part five

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37. Maud Newton: Blog If david foster wallace’s next novel is going to include an IRS agent, this tax geek might have to read it. Posted by Maud on January 15th, 2008 http://maudnewton.com/blog/?p=8301

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39. NPR: David Foster Wallace's 'Federer Moment' Author david foster wallace is waxing rhapsodic about the skills of Swiss tennis star Roger Federer. His recent New York Times piece is entitled Roger http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5666358

40. Go Ahead. See If I Care David Foster Wallace At Kenyon College david foster wallace at Kenyon College, May 21, 2005. This transcription was hurriedly done, and was only minimally checked for spelling and grammar errors http://goaheadsueme.blogspot.com/2005/05/david-foster-wallace-at-kenyon-college.

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