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Letters in Bottles (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
If you haven't read 'Up Simba!' by Rolling Stone's David Foster Wallace, give it a shot. The piece unfolds as his entertaining, bluntly written, unlikely-as-hell, embedded account of John McCain's push in the 2000 GOP Primary. I really don't know how it escaped my attention before now (thanks, Eric L, for the copy), and I concur with this blogger's assessment of the piece's renewed value today. It's...
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Bookgasm (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
With his second novel THE LEARNERS, Chip Kidd moves into the revered pantheon of postmodernist writers who have an affinity for the quirky (authors like David Foster Wallace, Michael Chabon, etc.). But the charm comes from his unpretentious storytelling, and a welcome belief in brevity. The tale revolves around a young man who obtains his first [...]
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Bigger Than Your Head (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
In his new book, How Fiction Works (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $24), James Wood dwells on a tendency in some novelists — John Updike, Vladimir Nabokov, David Foster Wallace — to load their narratives with descriptions and metaphors that would not necessarily find natural home in the thoughts or speech of their characters. These devices [...]
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Matt Bell (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
pictures for sad children , a web comic written and drawn by John Campbell , has become one of my favorite things on the internet over the last month or so since I got turned on to it because of this David Foster Wallace parody strip that went around for a day or two. It can be hard to jump into, because there are little storylines that run for six or seven strips at a time, but its generally very...
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Parabasis (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008
David Foster Wallace in the Wall St. Journal, discussing his book McCain's Promise: WSJ: Have you changed your mind about any of the points that you made in the book? Mr. Wallace: In the best political tradition, I reject the...
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Jezebel (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
It's hard to decide which is better: the oceans of blue liquid we are confronted with nowadays or the David Foster Wallace novel that is this Kotex ad from 1947. "Discreet" does not begin to describe... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Blog P.I. (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
For no other reasons than my own demonstrated affinity for the works of David Foster Wallace and recent fixation with the alleged pseudonymous works of Mike Murphy, I would like to present an excerpt of a limited panel strip drawn in 2005 by webcomic artist Mike Russell1. The following is based on one brief passage from [...]
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The Millions (A Blog About Books) (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
In August, 2006, a few months after the first Federer - Nadal Wimbledon final, David Foster Wallace published " Roger Federer as Religious Experience ," in the New York Times, a lengthy footnoted essay describing the sublimity of Roger Federer and the elements of top-flight tennis that can only be captured watching it live. The essay is not only the best piece of tennis writing I have ever read, but...
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StroudGreen.org - All Discussions (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
That was just about the best game of tennis I've seen. Even though I wanted Federer to win, it was just brilliant. There's a great David Foster Wallace (but a couple of years old now) article about Federer here:
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Titivil (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
If you're old enough to remember the works of David Foster Wallace (ahhh'm just kiddin'), you might recall that, even those of his fans (that's me!) would agree that his prose can tend towards the long, even without footnotes and annotations. May well be the case, but in this interview with him concerning the publishing of an essay he wrote on McCain years ago, I think he composes the sentence that...
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Slog (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
In 2000, Rolling Stone ran an essay by David Foster Wallace, in which the author rode on John McCain's Straight Talk Express for a few weeks. Wallace, of course, is one of the smartest human beings on earth --I generally prefer his essays to his fiction, incidentally--and the essay is pretty great. Wallace kind of falls under McCain's spell, though not so much that he'd actually vote for him. Back...
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Maud Newton (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
David Foster Wallace, whose 2000 essay about McCain evokes its era — and lives again — talks with the WSJ about the candidate now. (Via.)
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Cosmopoetica - Blog (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
[photo by Steve Rhodes] David Foster Wallace’s essay on John McCain’s 2000 presidential campaign is being re-issued as a book called McCain’s Promise. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, DFW responded to the question of whether he had changed his mind about his assessment of McCain: "The essay quite [...]
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kottke (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
On the occasion of the release of his 2000 Rolling Stone essay on John McCain's 2000 presidential campaign in unabridged and expanded book form , David Foster Wallace gives a short interview to the WSJ . McCain himself has obviously changed [since the 2000 campaign]; his flipperoos and weaselings on Roe v. Wade, campaign finance, the toxicity of lobbyists, Iraq timetables, etc. are just some of what...
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Radar (Free subscription) | 05/27/2008
McCain's Promise - David Foster Wallace" width="102" height="110" align="left" style="margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" /> Welcome back to the stage, if you will, David Foster Wallace's McCain's Promise (Back Bay, June 1). For those keeping score, this is the work's fourth incarnation in just eight years. In early 2000, Rolling Stone sent Wallace to cover John McCain's GOP
