David Foster Wallace

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• "I think of reading like a balanced diet..."

  
  Althouse — Authority: 739
  "... if your sentences are too baggy, too baroque, cut back on fatty Foster Wallace, say, and pick up Kafka as roughage." Says Zadie Smith in an analogy that makes me wonder if her writing is shit.
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• Interview: John Krasinskis Hideous Men

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 463
  read more [IMG: http://www.escapeest.com/images/austinist/091113_krasinski1]
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• The great and terrible truth

  
  Girls are Strange — Authority: 103
  Hello, friends. I know it’s been a long while since I’ve written anything, but I genuinely believe that if you could see the mountain of drafts I have on the back-end over here you might just forgive me.Though I’ve been back from Japan for a little over a month now, I haven’t spent a lot [...]
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• DFW on Leadership, Marketing and Cynicism

  
  Marissabidilla — Authority: 419
  Excerpt from David Foster Wallaces essay "Up, Simba," which discusses John McCains 2000 presidential campaign and related issues: The word leader itself is cliché and boring, but when you come across somebody who actually is a real leader, that person isnt boring at all; in fact hes the opposite of boring. ...
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• Gail sees a movie: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

  
  When Falls the Coliseum — Authority: 504
  Director/screenwriter John Krasinski assembled an impressive amount of male talent to fill out Brief Interviews with Hideous Men. Unfortunately, their impressive performances are largely wasted in this film. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men is not really funny enough to be a good comedy, and its attempts at ...
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• irony for nuthin’ and your chicks for free

  
  WNBTv - will not be televised — Authority: 421
  And I submit that this is what the real, no bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: How to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially ...
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• Book shopping with a bibliophile

  
  Rues de Bruxelles — Authority: 110
  Imagelink And not just any bibliophile either. Teacher, poet, bigtime Habs fan and long-time friend Darren Bifford . We spent a day out and about in London, our book shopping paced with pint sipping. He bought some poetry books. As poets do. I bought a standout selection of electic erudition. CTRL.ALT.SHIFT . ...
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• The Original of Laura and 8 Other Unfinished Novels

  
  Flavorwire — Authority: 737
  The wait for Nabokov’s unfinished novel, The Original of Laura, is almost over (countdown to November 17th, people). The story, if you hadn’t heard, is that before his death the grand master ordered his son, Dmitri, to destroy the notecards on which he had been crafting his newest novel. Dmitri, after much ...
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• La Culte de Baiser Sans Fin

  
  La Culte de Baiser Sans Fin — Authority: 138
  ‘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: 425
  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: 119
  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: 119
  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: 425
  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: 119
  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: 119
  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: 119
  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: 425
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Commenters keep cuing that they want a post about Larry David urinating on a picture of Jesus.

  
  Althouse — Authority: 739
  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: 425
  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: 428
  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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