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A David Foster Wallace Roundup

On February 21, 2012 By Jason Diamond

Morning Bites: David Foster Wallace At 50, Pen/Faulker Finalists, Bushwick Writers, Maya Rudolph As Her Mom, And More

On February 21, 2012 By Jason Diamond

Afternoon Bites: Mike Watt, Leonard Cohen, DFW symposium, and more

On January 23, 2012 By Tobias Carroll

Not David Foster Wallace

On October 14, 2011 By Jason Diamond

Posted by Jason Diamond

I won’t spoil the riches and wonders that is the Tumblr “Not Foster Wallace.” I’ll just let you click and find out.
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Morning Bites: Jarvis Cocker editing, DFW’s possible fabrications, flash fiction, and more

On October 12, 2011 By Jason Diamond

Faber & Faber hires Jarvis Cocker as its editor-at-large. We’re pretty sure Jarvis is the secret sauce the publishing industry needs to get rolling again.
So maybe David Foster Wallace fabricated some things… Justin Taylor reviews Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams. Guernica has a new flash fiction series. J. M. Coetzee moves his papers to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas. Tavis Smiley to tackle poverty in a new series on PBS.
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Morning Bites: Dan Fante on John Fante, Porchista Khakpour, Thelma & Louise, and more

On August 31, 2011 By Jason Diamond

Publishers Weekly gives us a lineup of the most literary cemeteries in the world. [The picture above is Herman Melville's grave at Woodlawn cemetery in The Bronx via us.]
“John Fante was also sort of a hack and was always pissed off at the studios and always working on some deadline, on some piece of dreck for some producer.” Dan Fante to Royal Young at Interview, talking about his new book Fante: A Family’s Legacy of Writing, Drinking and Surviving. Searching for David Foster Wallace’s self-help books. Porchista Khakpour on a decade spent [...]
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Afternoon Bites: Post-earthquake, everybody on David Foster Wallace, Dischord Records makes us smile, and more

On August 23, 2011 By Tobias Carroll

Of course we’re okay from the earthquake. Thanks so much for asking. How are you?
You may have already read Maud Newton’s much-discussed essay on David Foster Wallace, but if not… Edward Champion offers his response to the Newton piece mentioned above. Gothamist chats with Dave Herman of the City Reliquary. Dischord will be releasing the full-length debut from Office of Future Plans later this year. Are we excited? Yes.
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Afternoon Bites: David Mitchell, Ellen Willis, 33 1/3 Live, Kate Bush, Tina Fey, and David Foster Wallace’s Self-Help Archives, and More

On April 6, 2011 By Tobias Carroll

Tomorrow at Greenlight in Brooklyn: Christopher Weingarten, Daphne Carr, Bryan Charles, and Hank Shteamer discuss their contributions to the 33 1/3 series.
Jesse Miller on novels by John Brandon and David Mitchell. Several months ago, we mentioned a conference on the music criticism of Ellen Willis, to take place at NYU. One can now pre-register for said conference here. And Robert Christgau provides some context here. After a twenty year legal pursuit, Kate Bush has been granted the rights to use the words of Ulysses’ Molly Bloom in a forthcoming song. Keep Running [...]
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