The Howling Fantods

The result of random web surfing 5 minutes ago:

TV Tropes - The Broom of the System,  Infinite Jest and The Pale King.

Chuffed to see an update over at Poor Yorick Entertainment.

Chris Ayers is calling for requests for his visual blog of James O. Incandenza's filmography.

Post your suggestions to the Poor Yorick Entertainment Facebook page.

Update: And there's a fan art section too.

Through twitter last month I discovered that Bryan A. Garner (@BryanAGarner author of Garner's Modern American Usage and the subject of Wallace's review, Tense Present: Democracy, English, and the wars over usage - the expanded version, Authority and American Usage, was collected in Consider the Lobster) is working on a David Foster Wallace book, due this summer. On the 27th of March Garner announced a competition to draw a caricature for the book cover of his DFW interview, which was won by Landon Montgomery. Here is the entry submitted via twitter.

I received confirmation from Bryan A. Garner via twitter today that his book is based on his 'Prior To' interview with David Foster Wallace. I can't wait to read the rest of the conversation! Here's a taste:

Listen to a 2001 interview on 90.9 wbur's The Connection where Bryan Garner and David Foster Wallace discuss language, Garner's Modern American Usage and Wallace's review of it in Harper's, Tense Present: Democracy, English, and the wars over usage.

Look what arrived today!

I can't wait to get stuck into this over the weekend.

Stephen Burn and Marshall Boswell's A Companion to David Foster Wallace Studies, is in stock at Amazon.com.

Further details, table of contents etc. to be found over at Palgrave Macmillan, including a sample of the first chapter to have a look at (pdf).

Don't forget to contact Stephen J. Burn if you have any correspondence with David Foster Wallace that might be useful for his upcoming volume of letters!

A couple of updates since yesterday... and some more during the day:

Time for a link wrap-up for all the pieces that haven't made it to the front page this month, April 2013:

• Bryan A. Garner is working on a David Foster Wallace book, due this summer. On the 27th of March Garner announced a competition to draw a caricature for the book cover of his DFW interview, which was won by Landon Montgomery. Here is the entry submitted via twitter. (I wonder if it will be a transcript of interviews related to the 'Prior To' one? More when I find out.)
• David Foster Wallace: Waking to Darkness and Lightning over at noir realism. (12/4/13)
• Jordan Gass-Poore's Q&A with D.T. Max for The University Star. (15/4/13)
• New Daniel Matthew Varley's essay for Mockingbird, I Know This Moment To Be True: Some Thoughts on DT Max’s Reading of His Biography of David Foster Wallace. (16/4/13)
• From Biblioklept, Another Paradox - Is Good Old Neon DFW working through an idea from Ludwig Wittgenstein? (21/4/13)
• New David Ball's review for The April 2013 Review of Contemporary Fiction of Stephen J. Burn's. David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest: A Reader’s Guide (Second Edition) as well as Samuel Cohen and Lee Konstantinou's, The Legacy of David Foster Wallace. (Both essential reads!)
• George Saunders discusses his computer desktop and closes with, I don't own a Kindle. I love carrying a book around. I went to Asia last winter and took Infinite Jest along and got a lot of pleasure just out of lugging it around. (22/4/13)
• Eric Lai's, David Foster Wallace's Misguided Fears About Video Conferencing, an excerpt from his e-book over at Business 2 Community. (24/4/13)
• For Dissent from David Marcus, Post-Hysterics: Zadie Smith and the Fiction of Austerity. (24/4/13)
• Stephen J Swain's essay for Word is Hard, “Here’s a crown for your trouble”: Narrative Form in Laurence Sterne’s ‘Tristram Shandy’ and David Foster Wallace’s ‘The Pale King’. (25/4/13)
• Erik Estep's, Semi-ode to DFW, for Three Percent. (25/4/13)
• New Vox Popoli's review of Infinite Jest. (25/4/2013) Certainly not the same book I read. Assuming this isn't a parody.
• New Nina Martyris compares the opening and metaphorical devices, of Tolstoy's Hadji Murad and Wallace's The Pale King for The Christian Science Monitor. (26/4/13) [I'm not too impressed with that title... sensationalist much? Thanks to @biblioklept for reminding me of this from 2011, The Pale King’s Opening Lines Vs. Hadji Murad’s Opening Lines.]

Lovely animated excerpt from an interview between David Foster Wallace and Loenard Lopate in March 1996.

Blank on Blank - DFW on Ambition

[Heaps more text, video and audio interviews here.]