(splashy, splashy, splashy) Michael: OH MY GOD! Michael: Do you happen to have, like, a number for neighborhood pool maintenance? Alex: Hmm, you'll have to ask Jennifer. Something wrong? M: . . . There's a freaking CREATURE in the pool.... (read more)
Q: Just how much Graham Greene do you intend to read, anyway? A: Every word he wrote.... (read more)
Today is the official U.S. publication date of The Manuscript. It's also the day I finally knocked up a web site for Pandora's Sisters. Have a look.... (read more)
From David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest - "You burn to have your photograph in a tennis magazine." "I'm afraid so." "Why again exactly, now?"... (read more)
An amateur novelist doesn't think he's done until his book is under a cover and piled on display tables across the land. Why do these people think this is likely to happen? Moreover, why do they imagine that it will be a rapturous, fulfilling, life-changing event if it does?... (read more)
"He makes the rest of us feel hollow for being so unoriginal in our writing and in our lives."... (read more)
D.T. Max has a totally stunning piece in The New Yorker: The Unfinished - David Foster Wallace's struggle to surpass Infinite Jest.... (read more)
Special for Easter Sunday: hilariously rude t-shirts. This might seem like kind of a strange thing to anthologize. But, back when I was working for the Civil Service, I did find the T-Shirt Humour site to be one of those things I checked in on when I was bored and depressed and needed a laugh. (And sent around when they were particularly good.) And what are rude t-shirts without a good soundtrack?... (read more)
The Howling Fantods - your source for all things David Foster Wallace - reports that Wallace's final novel, The Pale King, may be delayed until autumn 2010.... (read more)
"I keep remembering this strange little story I heard in Sunday school when I was about the size of a fire hydrant.... (read more)
...anomie and solipsism and a peculiarly American loneliness: the prospect of dying without even once having loved something more than yourself."... (read more)
I am herewith additionally reprinting David Foster Wallace's essay, "F/X Porn"... (read more)
"The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you." - David Foster Wallace (1962 - 2008)... (read more)
• Female medic awarded Military Cross for bravery • Hitch on the Iraq Effect in the Arab Spring • Inside David Foster Wallace's Private Self-Help Library... (read more)
A major aspect of my putting-life-aside-until-I-get-the-freaking-novel done austerity was: I didn't read The Pale King. A lot of really totally fascinating DFWabilia has appeared on the web in this time - dead, the man just goes from strength to strength - and here it all is now!... (read more)
So I've just finished Every Love Story Is A Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace. Here are the top four wrenching things I learned from this engrossing and heartbreaking book.... (read more)
And what did I find on TED but that someone had done sort of an animated version of David Foster Wallace's celebrated Kenyon College commencement speech. Someone rescued this amazing, obscure, audio-only recording by a dead guy, and brought it to brilliant life.... (read more)
