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Friday, 03 July 2009 |
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Newstalk Ireland will have (have had?) a segment about DFW and Infinite Summer, including an interview with Greg Carlisle of Elegant Complexity fame. It is 10:45am Ireland time today (I think?). I understand that if you are a US reader that equates to 5:45pm Eastern Time. Being on the other side of the world I missed all the updates overnight, so the interview may now have finished. Updates as I have them. Visit the Newstalk website. | | No comments for this item |
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Tuesday, 30 June 2009 |
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Hi everyone! Sorry for the lack of updates, busy week (end of term and all). Infinite Summer: Infinite Summer is going strong and being mentioned all over the web. It's great to see such a great book recognised. The best bit is that I have lost track of the number of comments from first time readers along the lines of, "It's great", "Not too hard", "Challenging and rewarding", "Better than I expected"... etc etc. As I'd hoped, I'm reliving my first read through others. I mentioned it last week, and the Infinite Zombies blog is living up to my expectations. Thanks to all over there! Oblibion Group Read: If you've just read IJ and keen for something else... Wallace-l are one week into a group read of DFW's short story collection Oblivion (my fave of all the collections). It's been great so far. David Lipsky's DFW Biography has been bought. It is titled “Although of Course You End up Becoming Yourself”: Congratulations, David! I am so happy we'll be able to read it. Federer on Wallace: Q. There were times during your match today when I was reminded of an essay by the late American author, David Foster Wallace. It's called, Roger Federer as Religious Experience. I'm wondering if you have heard of this essay, read it, or what you think of it?ROGER FEDERER: Sure, I remember his piece. I remember doing the interview here on the grounds up on the grass. I had a funny feeling walking out of the interview. I wasn't sure what was going to come out of it, because I didn't know exactly what direction he was going to go. The piece was obviously fantastic. You know, yeah, it's completely different to what I've read in the past about me anyway.
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Sunday, 21 June 2009 |
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(Well... tomorrow US time) Good luck to all the fantods readers joining the IJ mega-read, Infinite Summer. (Thanks for the links too!) I don't think there's much of an excuse to make for not reading it now... I'll be following along too, I think mostly to experience that first read through all the first time readers. Some cool resources/links posted around the traps for the read: The Infinite Zombies are going to blog the read (which fits in with my plan of reading about reading IJ) | | No comments for this item |
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Wednesday, 17 June 2009 |
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Interestingly, the D. T. Max one has been sold and the Lipsky one has not. Personally I'm in great anticipation of both of them, but I am surprised Lipsky's has not yet been sold. Particularly when considering the quality, depth, and empathy of his Rolling Stone piece linked above. I hope they both get published, there's no doubt D. T. Max and Lipsky will present very different perspectives. | | No comments for this item |
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Sunday, 14 June 2009 |
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The Mary Gaitskill thing... I'm pretty sure that is in reference to something I posted on the Fantods in the early days (it was about a forthcoming collection of writing I think). This interview brings back the shame of writing first and checking facts later. The quote in this interview about the Gaitskill thing is also one of the reasons I never wrote to DFW. I still remember reading DFW's answer all those years ago and feeling the horror wash over me... sigh. | | No comments for this item |
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Sunday, 14 June 2009 |
My copy of the Sonora Review double issue 55/56 with the DFW tribute section arrived today (handed to me at my door on a Saturday morning, somewhat of a surprise!). So if there are any other Australians who ordered a copy... expect it soon. It is a beautifully produced issue, and I've only just started to dig into the DFW section. The highlight so far is Greg Carlisle's (author of Elegant Complexity, and back in stock over at Amazon ) essay Wallace's Infinite Fiction. A seriously amazing analysis of DFW's fiction with a focus on Infinite Jest ' as analogous to mathematical functions whose limits involve infinity.' Greg has done it again, this is yet another important contribution to the body of IJ criticism and is pivotal when considering the narrative structure of the novel. If you are at all interested in the complexities of IJ this is one not to miss. I haven't even got to the uncollected DFW short Solomon Silverfish yet. I have not read it for a number of years, and I'm saving it for when I can read it in a sitting without disruption. A big hello and thanks to Michael Sheehan for putting it all together and for the humbling shout out in his introduction. | | No comments for this item |
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