David Foster Wallace

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• La Culte de Baiser Sans Fin

  
  La Culte de Baiser Sans Fin — Authority: 139
  ‘As with La Culte du Prochain Train , the Cult Of The Endless Kiss of the iron mining regions surrounding the Gulf Of St. Lawrence, coalesced around a periodic, tournament style competition, this one comprised of 64 adolescent Canadian participants, of whom one half were female. Thus, the first round pitted 32 ...
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• David Foster Wallace–possible excerpts from The Pale King: ["Three Fragments from a Longer Thing" (2000); "Good People" (New Yorker, February 5, 2007); "The Compliance Branch" (Harpers, February 2008); "Wiggle Room" and "Irrelevant Bob" (New Yorker, Marc

  
  I Just Read About That... — Authority: 470
  SOUNDTRACK : TINDERSTICKS-Live at the Botanique, 9th-12 May 2001 (2001). This is called an “official bootleg.”  It must be very rare as I can’t even find a picture of it online.  My friend Lar must have gotten it for me, as I have never seen the band live and it was (apparently) only available at their ...
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• David Foster Wallace Week: Part V

  
  3000 BOOKS — Authority: 120
  Möbius master: David Foster Wallace and the masculine manipulator 1,2 Its been a week-long Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace spectacular here at 3000 BOOKS. What could be more fitting than to end by discussing the Interviews themselves? Why, I cant think of anything! Lets proceed. ...
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• David Foster Wallace Week: Part IV

  
  3000 BOOKS — Authority: 120
  David Foster Wallace and preempting of the editorial reader The therapist said that she felt she could support the depressed persons use of the word vulnerable far more wholeheartedly than she could support the use of pathetic, since her gut (i.e., the therapists gut) was telling her that the depressed persons ...
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• David Foster Wallace–comments in The Oxford American Writer’s Thesaurus (2004)

  
  I Just Read About That... — Authority: 470
  SOUNDTRACK : TINDERSTICKS-Trouble Every Day [soundtrack] (2001). This is the second soundtrack that Tindersticks made for director Clair Denis.  This disc is rather unlike Nenette Et Boni , in that this soundtrack is much more stark.  There are several moments on the disc where there is nothing but silence ...
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• David Foster Wallace Week: Part III

  
  3000 BOOKS — Authority: 120
  Dodgem-car driver: David Foster Wallace and the Brief Interviews with Hideous Men s spasmodic variety of forms If I were asked to place David Foster Wallace in the literary carnival, Id probably have him steering the dodgem cars. Not on the ghost train, with its foregone tricks, leaden tracks and lacklustre ...
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• David Foster Wallace Week: Part II

  
  3000 BOOKS — Authority: 120
  Someone told me that David Foster Wallaces mother used to pretend to choke every time he or his sister, Amy, made a grammatical mistake in conversation, and wouldnt stop until they corrected the blunder. While guilty grammarians might end up with particular types of problems, linguistic acrobatics certainly wouldnt be ...
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• David Foster Wallace Week: Part I

  
  3000 BOOKS — Authority: 120
  So, its David Foster Wallace Week here at 3000 BOOKS. Actually, it would be more accurate to say that its Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace Week, but that would be more unwieldy than permuting the LL corners of a 50x real size Rubiks Cube. I loved Brief Interviews with Hideous Men , and ...
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• David Foster Wallace–”Order and Flux in Northampton” (Conjunctions No. 17, Fall 1991)

  
  I Just Read About That... — Authority: 470
  SOUNDTRACK : TINDERSTICKS-Bloomsbury Theatre 12.3.95 (1995). This is a rare and out of print live CD from an early Tindersticks show.  My friend Lar found it used for me in Ireland (thank you!).  But it turns out he found it for me about a week before it was reissued as a bonus disc with the Second ...
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• Commenters keep cuing that they want a post about Larry David urinating on a picture of Jesus.

  
  Althouse — Authority: 735
  You know, we watched that episode of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" last week and laughed a lot. Ive watched every episode of Larry Davids brilliant sit-com. I love it. I think I would accept anything from Larry David. Some people who are attacking him over last weeks episode obviously dont know the show and dont ...
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• Donald Barthelme–”The Balloon” from Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts (1968)

  
  I Just Read About That... — Authority: 470
  SOUNDTRACK :  TINDERSTICKS-What is a Man (2000). This is a soundtrack to a TV mini-series called The Sins (which I know nothing about).  The song (for there is only one) is a cover of a Four Tops song (which I do not know).  The “B-side” is an instrumental version of said song. And, sadly, that’s ...
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• Writers as Readers

  
  a portrait of the artist as a young man — Authority: 430
  Underlying the series’ preference for writers appears to be…the belief that someone’s being a good writer makes her eo ipso a good reader—which is the same reasoning that undergirds most blurbs and MFA programs, and is both logically invalid and empirically false (trust me). [David Foster Wallace in his ...
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• David Foster Wallace–”/Solomon Silverfish/” (Sonora Review no. 16, Fall 1987)

  
  I Just Read About That... — Authority: 470
  SOUNDTRACK : TINDERSTICKS-Nénette et Boni [soundtrack] (1996). After releasing two albums of atmospheric brilliance, Tindersticks were called upon to score the music for the film Nénette et Boni . And this disc answers the question of whether it is Stuart Staples’ voice that is the driving force behind ...
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• "Some sort of personal quota was exceeded at around age thirty-five.I now actually want to know less..."

  
  a portrait of the artist as a young man — Authority: 430
  “Some sort of personal quota was exceeded at around age thirty-five.I now actually want to know less than I know about most celebrities.” - David Foster Wallace
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• David Foster Wallace–”Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously Young” (The Review of Contemporary Fiction Vol. 8, No. 3, 1988)

  
  I Just Read About That... — Authority: 470
  SOUNDTRACK : FIONA APPLE-When the Pawn… (1999). I learned about Fiona Apple from CMJ New Music Monthly before her debut came out.  I was convinced she was just another pretty thing with little talent. But then I heard “Shadowboxer” and I was really impressed by the depth of her voice.  When I got the ...
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• Watch Ben Gibbard in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

  
  Flavorwire — Authority: 722
  John Krasinskis adaptation of the wonderful David Foster Wallaces short story collection Brief Interviews with Hideous Men is out in theaters. Well, theater really, since in New York its still playing exclusively at the IFC Center. But no matter. The real story blowing up the blogs is that Death Cab for Cutie frontman ...
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• This is so me.

  
  The Feminist Texican — Authority: 500
  When I read this passage, much as I hate this section of the book, I had to pause and consider the fact that this is me, and this is my problem in life at the moment. Depressing.  Brutal and depressing. We see this in experience.  One sees this in all obsessive goal-based cultures of pursuit…For you, if you ...
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• What James Bond Has For Breakfast and Other Equally Important Things

  
  Fire In The Bones — Authority: 108
  You know the Esquire Big Black Book for Fall 2009 has fallen into hands it shouldn’t have fallen into if they’re choice of the “The Most Important Meal of the Day” is breakfast, and the breakfast James Bond supposedly has is “Scrambled eggs with chopped chives, served on hot buttered toast with pink ...
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• Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

  
  Ninja vs Penguin — Authority: 127
  John Krasinski , best known as Jim Halpert from The Office , is making his directorial debut with the dark comedy, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men . Adapted from the book by David Foster Wallace , Brief Interviews with Hideous Men , follows anthropology grad student, Sara Quinn ( Julianne Nicholson ), whose ...
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• How Art Can Be Challenging

  
  listen to... — Authority: 118
  I just read an interview with Jeff Tweedy where he says: People really think narrowly when it comes to those types of challenges, and the idea that something has to be aggressive or avant grade, or atonal, even, to be a challenge. I’ve found it to be the exact opposite. We literally put 15 minutes of noise on a ...
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