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Harry Ransom Center Foyer Pics
General Updates
Wednesday, 10 March 2010

Matt Bucher visited the Harry Ransom Center foyer today and took some pics of the four items on display with his iPhone (So jealous over here, Matt!)

Currently on display are the cover page from the first two sections of Infinite Jest, a notebook of typescript pages from IJ, annotated galley of the Borges Bio DFW reviewed, and a poem about vikings DFW wrote when he was young(!).

Thanks for heading over and taking the pics, Matt.

Also, here's a similar article to yesterday's from U Texas with a different picture - this one shows corrections to IJ for the paperback release.

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Wallace's Private Papers Acquired by U Texas
General Updates
Tuesday, 09 March 2010

I've just logged on for the first time today - Wow. Gold mine.

David Foster Wallace's private paper's have been acquired by the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, Austin. (Hand-written notes from IJ at this link)

University of Texas Links: 

Cultural Compass - How the David Foster Wallace archive found a home at the Ransom Center

Cultural Compass - Infinite Possibilities: A first glimpse into David Foster Wallace’s library

Cultural Compass - Bonnie Nadell shares her thoughts - “The archives are a window into his mind”

Words Circled in DFW's Dictionary

Annoted inside covers of some of DFW's Books

(Big thanks to everyone who got in touch today.)

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TTBOOK - Boswell reads DFW
Appearances/Readings
Saturday, 06 March 2010
This (today's I think) episode of To The Best of Our Knowledge, Telling Addiction, contains a short segment where Marshall Boswell (author of Understanding David Foster Wallace ) reads an AA section from Infinite Jest.
 
You can stream the show from the TTBOOK Telling Addiction page, the direct .mp3 of the NPR podcast, or stream it through the flash plugin over at insequential: a weblog (where I first learned of this).
 
Boswell's reading begins shortly after 22:35.
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On Translating Infinite Jest into German
Infinite Jest
Thursday, 04 March 2010
Amanda DeMarco over at Publishing Perspectives has written a neat little article, The Mistake on Page 1,032: On Translating Infinite Jest into German, about Ulrich Blumenbach's commercially successful German translation of Infinite Jest.
 
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Boulder Weekly Lipsky Bio Review
DFW Biography
Wednesday, 03 March 2010
 
I've been holding off making further comments about this (fantastic) book until I post some neat little things later this month, but I'll just mention one little thing to stave off those calls for more info. David Lipsky follows DFW everywhere over the five days, including to one of his Prose Classes. As a teacher myself, it was electrifying to read about his teaching style and technique.
 
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He paces around the classroom. Happy, energetic. At one point, thinking, he even drops into a quick knee bend. Class laughs; they really like him. 
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General News Catch Up
General Updates
Wednesday, 03 March 2010
It's been a busy few days, so here's a collection of DFW stuff from around the web.
 

  • Ryan Walsh has updated his David Foster Wallace Audio Project archive page with some new pieces - certainly worth checking out if you have missed some of the audio bits and pieces that have appeared around the web the last few months (and particularly if you'd like them in nice self contained mp3 format). Cheers, Ryan.

(Thanks to Matt, everyone over at wallace-l, and Ryan for keeping an eye on the web this past couple of weeks.)
 
 
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This is Water Original Audio and Video
This is Water
Monday, 22 February 2010

Hatchette Book Group are advertising that the original David Foster Wallace recording (and video it seems...) of This is Water will be available to purchase from the 1st of May. If this is the commencement speech video (no word yet if it is) this is pretty exciting news!

Update: Thanks go to artistic snorkel for this YouTube link to a clip of the original commencement speech audio!

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