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General News Catch Up

Wednesday, 03 March 2010 18:05 General Updates

It's been a busy few days, so here's a collection of DFW stuff from around the web.

How about some rules for Eschaton Lite? A playable cut down version of the IJ game! (Still looks like hard work) Want to play? This facebook event page is the place to go.

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.

One of the short films from the Infinite Jest inspired art exhibition A Failed Entertainment has appeared online: watch Zero Gravity Tea Ceremony.

On David Foster Wallace's Birthday over at Cosmopoetica about DFW and Everything is Green.

(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

Monday, 22 February 2010 07:05 This is Water

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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Last Updated on Monday, 01 March 2010 07:02

Critique Piece on DFW

Tuesday, 23 February 2010 19:12 DFW Remembrance

The Winter issue of Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (Table of Contents) contains essays about fiction writers who have died over the past decade.

It includes an essay David Foster Wallace: “That Distinctive Singular Stamp of Himself” by his Illinois State University colleague of 10 years, Charles B. Harris. It is an insightful piece about DFW, includes a number of moving personal anecdotes and considers his wide reaching achievements.

It's not yet available freely online (I'm not sure if it will be) but if you have access to academic journals through your work you should be able to track it down.

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Last Updated on Tuesday, 23 February 2010 19:14

Rain Taxi Footnotes Conference NYC Review

Tuesday, 23 February 2010 02:11 Conferences

Scott F. Parker's Rain Taxi piece, Notes from Footnotes: New Directions in David Foster Wallace Studies is a comprehensive overview that successfully catches the energy present at the conference I attended in NY last year. Considering the depth and breadth of material covered in one day it does do a pretty good job of getting across the energy in the room during a very busy day. I have to disagree with Parker that session 2 could be seen as a low point of the day, Taveira and Hering's were a couple of my fave papers for the day... maybe I'm more visual.

(Thanks, Judd)

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David Lipsky's DFW Bio

Friday, 05 February 2010 07:54 DFW Biography

I've been lucky enough to receive a galley of David Lipsky's Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace - I am stunned at the content. 300 pages of transcripts from 5 days of recorded conversations spent on the road with DFW on the last leg of his IJ tour. David lipsky inserts asides, thoughts, responses, and questions in a way that would not have been possible in the original piece for which this all took place.

I can't wait to get home and keep reading. It is personal, and real, and moving - and best of all - it is David Foster Wallace speaking about David Foster Wallace.

I am so sad he is gone.

(Pre-order from Amazon)

Responding to redsock's comment below: It isn't simply a straight transcription of the tapes - it's better than that. There's a neat introductory piece, and David Lipsky's thoughts and observations appear throughout the text without disrupting the conversations.

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Last Updated on Sunday, 07 February 2010 07:33

Consider David Foster Wallace in Production

Thursday, 04 February 2010 17:49 Critical Analysis

Edited by David Hering, Sideshow Media Group's Consider David Foster Wallace is in production and will be ready for pre-order soon.

I'm really looking forward to this collection of papers stemming from the Liverpool DFW conference last year.

(via sideshowmedia)

Edit: Tentative table of contents (thanks, Matt)

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Last Updated on Friday, 05 February 2010 15:21

Brief Interviews Movie DVD and Blu-ray Release

Thursday, 04 February 2010 17:40 BIWHM Movie

IGN has posted details about the March 16th release of the Brief Interviews with Hideous Men movie. You can pre-order over at Amazon on DVD and Blu-ray.

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