The Howling Fantods

I encourage you to as well.

It's been a big year for Wallace enthusiasts (and for this site... for a while there I thought it was all gone), The Pale King arrived and along with it hundreds of articles and reviews. The great majority mentioned that it contained some of Wallace's best writing to date (I agree completely), but also lamented as to what it might have been. But it wasn't sad, it was uplifting and rewarding and not at all simply about boredom.

A couple of David Foster Wallace interviews surfaced - one old, and one new (but not previously available in English):

• Bill Katovsky's interview from the April 1987 issue of Arrival can be found over at McSweeney's - David Foster Wallace: A Profile.
• Ostap Karmodi's Russian interview with DFW. The New York Review of Books has an edited version, ‘A Frightening Time in America’: An Interview with David Foster Wallace, and Ostap Karmodi has posted the full text on his blog.

Both caused me to whip the Interviews and Audio page back into shape.

My friend Matt wrote an article (which I love) for this site about being introduced to the writing of DFW, and The Fantods got a write-up in the local paper (cheers, Duncan).

But most of all - thank you David Foster Wallace, because (cliché of DFW clichés) you changed the way I see and think about my world.

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• Roberto Natalini's, La strana matematica di David Foster Wallace (The strange mathematics of David Foster Wallace - Translated from Italian) 11/9/11.
• Stephen C. French's, How David Foster Wallace Has Made Me A Better English Teacher. (11/9/11)
• Ryan Blanck's, 9/12/11.
• John Armstrong's, David Foster Wallace, Three Years On. (12/9/11)
• T.N. Tobias', Remembering David Foster Wallace. (12/9/11)
• JoeTalk's, David Foster Wallace: In Memoriam. (12/9/11)
• Kevin Morris', A Summer of David Foster Wallace. (12/9/11)
• Byliner collects 9 Essays to read. (12/9/11)