David Foster Wallace

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• Infinite Fall

  
  Confessions of a Magnificent Mind — Authority: 100
  Let me make myself clear. I am a fanboy. Infinite Jest is no mean achievement. It’s not just another great work of fiction. It is something else. It is carefully and laboriously constructed, with every sentence crying to be read again, and again. It’s not easy to pick up this book from the shelf and start ...
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• Hey kid he says. Hey kid are you okay.

  
  Girls are Strange — Authority: 113
  There’s been time this whole time. You can’t kill time with your heart. Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.
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• The Fear™, and Lifes Terrible Truth(s)

  
  Live and Uncensored! — Authority: 426
  Last night, in conversation with a Highly Successful Ridiculously Wise Investor : So you brought your life and your business to a whole nother country, where the culture and the language are different from everything you know and understand. Werent you scared? Me: Yeah, but Im still scared. Im scared every day. I ...
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• Consider the Wallace

  
  Marissabidilla — Authority: 129
  To all the people who encouraged me to read David Foster Wallace--who assured me that his essays were unsurpassed examples of the form; who dragged me to the DFW shelf at Powells and said "My goal in life is to be half as good a writer as him "; who sat in a corner of my living room last fall and confessed how torn ...
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• Life Affirmations of a Suicidal Writer

  
  The Nervous Breakdown — Authority: 515
  Tony DuShane starts his literary career at six years old by writing a suicide note. He cant quite figure out how to kill himself so he finds hope in the love he feels for girls at his school.
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• Disambiguations™ for November 17, 2009

  
  Disambiguation — Authority: 126
  I. Erasing on the German edition of Infinite Jest : The minimalist cover design has a somewhat sepulchral quality, drained of color, black type on otherwise blank matte white boards, black endpapers, the back cover a mirror image of the front. With a thoughtful touch: Sewn into the binding are two bookmark ...
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• "I think of reading like a balanced diet..."

  
  Althouse — Authority: 744
  "... 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: 166
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• The great and terrible truth

  
  Girls are Strange — Authority: 113
  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: 129
  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: 522
  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: 425
  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: 411
  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: 709
  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: 133
  ‘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: 129
  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: 129
  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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