More on the DFW ArchiveWell, news about the U Texas David Foster Wallace archive is all over the web, and neat things keep popping up all over. A few choice links from today: Great little summary article by Meredith Blake over at the New Yorker, What’s in the David Foster Wallace Archive? It contains 10 pics of items from the archive including a letter from Michael Pietsch to David Foster Wallace about his second reading of the draft Infinite Jest. Statesman.com has a nice gallery of photos, #3, a newspaper clipping has a photo of young David Foster Wallace from 1974. The Guardian has posted five images to scribd and you can zoom in on these ones very nicely! The first is a high res verison of his childhoom viking poem. Indirectly related to the archive: Matt Bucher has posted Shawn Miklaucic's 1997 paper on Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree and Fredric Jameson. What's so special about it? Shawn was a student in David Foster Wallace's class and the paper is annotated by Wallace throughout. (Special thanks to Matt, Shawn, David, and Bonnie) Add new comment
James Wood on Brief Interviews at 92YCritic James Wood is reading Brief Interviews with Hideous men for 92Y. He'll then speak at an event at 92Y on March 22nd (in New York City) about the experience: The Critic's Voice: First Reads with James Wood. You can purchase tickets here (and they're cheaper if you're under 35). When Wallace died in 2008, Wood wrote, “Whatever one felt about his work, it was hard to imagine any serious reader of fiction not being intensely interested in what he was going to do next. I had been looking forward to witnessing his literary journey, and to adjusting my own opinions and prejudices—or rather, being forced by the quality of the work to do so. Of great interest to me was his own ambivalent relation with some elements of postmodernism (irony, too-easy self-consciousness, and so on), and the burgeoning presence of moral critique in his work. One had the feeling that this new work was being written under considerable pressure— and I don’t just mean psychological pressure, but the pressure of staying loyal to his fractured, non-linear epistemology while at the same time incorporating some of that admiration he had for the concerns of the nineteenth-century novel. To put it flippantly, he was aesthetically radical and metaphysically conservative, and the negotiation of that asymmetry would have been a marvelous thing to follow, as a reader.” (Thanks, Ricardo) James Wood on David Foster Wallace If we consider some of Wood's published views about Wallace this could turn out to be a very interesting evening. I'd love to attend, so I'm looking forward to a write-up over at Emdashes. James Wood on Wallace after his death (originally here): Whatever one felt about his work, it was hard to imagine any serious reader of fiction not being intensely interested in what he was going to do next. I had been looking forward to witnessing his literary journey, and to adjusting my own opinions and prejudices — or rather, being forced by the quality of the work to do so. James Wood on Wallace in his book How Fiction Works. And finally, Wood's review of Oblivion: The Digressionist (the link gives me certificate errors with firefox - misconfigured server maybe?) contains this memorable quote - bold type is my emphasis (thanks for the reminder, Adam): Wallace has many ardent followers (his name is just "DFW" on some college campuses), but surely no one has ever claimed to be moved by him. Amused, impressed, challenged, even finely tormented; but not involved, quickened, raised, imparadised. Wallace may be torn between desiring the ordinary satisfactions of readerly connection and disdaining their very ordinariness. Alas, the latter impulse almost always vanquishes the former. No one has ever claimed to be moved by him?
Harry Ransom Center Foyer PicsMatt 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. Wallace's Private Papers Acquired by U TexasI'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.) TTBOOK - Boswell reads DFWThis (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.
On Translating Infinite Jest into GermanAmanda 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. Update: Metafilter discussion thread.
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