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The stories David Foster Wallace contributed to Harper’s are now available online. “The Depressed Person” (first published in 1998) is a powerful piece, now harrowing to reconsider. I’ll admit I...
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This week’s New Yorker has an excellent piece on David Foster Wallace, on his struggles with depression and with writing The Pale King, the unfinished novel he left behind. Wallace’s wife found several...
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Infinite Summer with DFW
cartoon by John Campbell, from his Hourly Comic Journal (January 9th, 2008) Slate reports on Infintesummer.org, a reading-group/support group combo for those grieving David Foster Wallace’s death and...
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First Looks, March 2012: The Pretty Girl and Conversations with David Foster...
Hello again, FWR friends. Welcome to the second installment of our new blog series, “First Looks,” which highlights soon-to-be released books that have piqued my interest as a reader-who-writes. We...
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Guilty (Dis)Pleasures: 3 Things I Just Can’t Get Into
Photo: bookgrl, via Flickr Do you remember a while back when goat cheese became a Huge Culinary Thing? And it started appearing everywhere—on pizzas, in salads, in ice cream, even in cheesecakes....
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DFW + Me = An ‘Arranged’ Marriage of Music and Fiction
“TV Show Daughters” by Suzie Silver, from Tri-Stan Introduction: Sometimes the muse assumes the unlikeliest forms. When composer Eric Moe began searching for a lyrical inspiration for a new piece, a...
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