The Howling Fantods

Finally made it to a computer! Christmas hols down on Australia's south coast of NSW has been keeping me busy. I've been tweeting bits and pieces if you've been keeping an eye on the sidebar or twitter, otherwise here's a collection of unsorted DFW pieces to keep you reading over the break - and while I'm updating less frequently.

• Wayne Brenner's short review of The Last Interview for The Austin Chronicle. (26/12/12)
  
• David Foster Wallace: Life, Writing, Addiction, and Recovery over at Points: The Blog of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society. (24/12/12)
• Fiction Advocate's Year of David Foster Wallace Pt. 1.(20/12/12)
• D.T. Max over a Page-Turner, D.F.W.: The Biographical Enterprise W/R/T Fiction. (20/12/12)
• Daniel Green's essay, Just Plain Doomed. (19/12/12)
• Henry Veggian's paper, Anachronisms of Authority: Authorship, Exchange Value, and David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King. pdf  (19/12/12)
• And congratulations to D.T. Max for making Michiko Kakutani’s 10 Favorite Books of 2012 with his  biography. (17/12/12)
• Nat Segnit's review of Both Flesh and Not for The Independent. (15/12/12)
• Leo Robson's review for The New Statesman, The literary legacy of David Foster Wallace  Both Flesh and Not: Essays - review. (13/12/12)
• Parker Tarun for The Cipher, How Not To Remmeber David Foster Wallace. (12/12/12)
• Robert Fay blogs for Full Stop, In the Footsteps of David Foster Wallace. (11/12/12)
• Real Time Arts: Berlin Performs David Foster Wallace
• Matthew Walther for Prospect, Forget the Footnotes. (7/12/12)
• Tim Groeland's mutli DFW review for The Dublin Review of Books, A Ghost is Born. (3/12/12)

Update 27/12: First short review below.

Now in stock over at Amazon.

December 18 2012 -  David Foster Wallace: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (The Last Interview Series)

[via @mattbucher]

Reviews:

• Wayne Brenner's short review for The Austin Chronicle. (26/12/12)
  

If you missed D.T. Max and Tom McCarthy discussing David Foster Wallace at Strand Book Store on the 28th of November you can watch a video of the event via YouTube.

Update 14/12/12

Official Harvard Video via YouTube.

Times below still accurate to within 30 seconds or so.

Related Articles:

• The Glance Reveals, The Malady Was Life Itself: The Origin of A David Foster Wallace Anecdote. [11/12/12] (Here's a direct video link to the quote during the evening)

• Harvard Arts Blog, The weird, happy accident of David Foster Wallace. [12/12/12]

• Katie Koch for the Harvard Gazette, A too-short life, examined. [13/12/12]

Update 12/12/12:

You can download an audio only mp3 version of the D.T. Max and James Wood conversation at Harvard here. (78MB)
No need to purchase anything. Scroll down and click the regular free download in the bottom right hand corner. Removed now that official Harvard video is available.

It got the second last question from Sven, and the beginning of the responses. I believe there may have been one more question after it.

Update: Live stream of the event from December 10, 6:00pm, here.

D.T. Max on David Foster Wallace, in conversation with James Wood Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism, Harvard University.

Monday 10th December 2012.

Poster

Great little article by D. T. Max up over at The New Yorker Page-Turner blog about the origin for the title of Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace.

D.F.W.: Tracing the Ghostly Origins of a Phrase:

Continue reading to find out just where the phrase pops up throughout Wallace's writing.

It is lovely to have a bit-part in the above story. I remember cycling over to the National Library in Canberra after work one day, calling down the manuscripts hoping to find something, but not expecting to find anything. I started with the folder D.T. Max had suggested, number 31. I read through 50-odd fragile typed pages looking for the phrase... no sign of anything. I had another hour or so until the research room closed, so I moved onto the next folder.

Nothing.

Then folder 33, just over half way through, near the top of a page, "Every Love Story is a Ghost Story." Part of a list of titles for a possible collection of stories. The excitement escaped my mouth momentarily and drew the attention of other readers in the quiet room. The librarian on duty was clearly pleased that I'd at least found something.

It's still a memorable moment for me.

I can only imagine how it feels looking through the papers in the David Foster Wallace Archive...

Oh yeah, apparently the Infinite Jest ebook is super cheap right now. (Sorry fellow Australian's, not for us...)