“There is no such thing as not voting”
From David Foster Wallace.
David Foster Wallace, Pokémon Go, Trump-Pence
Spect-ops and Johnny Gentle.
DFW on utilize
Three versions of a note for the Oxford American Writer’s Thesaurus.
DFW at Kenyon
An account of how David Foster Wallace came to give a commencement address at Kenyon College.
Orin Incandenza, shapeshifter
He could be a progressive or a moderate, whatever a voter prefers.
Overheard
It felt like David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King .
NYT sanitizes DFW
They mess you up, The New York Times .
The Pale King : progressive sales tax
‘Irrelevant’ Chris Fogle tells the story of Illinois’s (imaginary) 1977 experiment in a progressive sales tax.
The Pale King : note-taking
Keen attention, sharp pencils.
Word of the day: banausic
It appears in David Foster Wallace’s The Pale KIng (2011), in the extraordinary last-class hortation spoken by a Jesuit substitute instructor of accountancy.
The Pale King: “1984 totalitarianisms”
A 1980 conversation about 1984.
Infinite Winter
Reading David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest in thirteen weeks.
John Rabe and David Foster Wallace
“Bayer is a name I trust.”
The End of the Tour
This film might better have been titled Although of Course You End Up Becoming a Caricature of Yourself.
Word of the Day: sprachgefühl
“Sprachgefühl Necessitates Our Ongoing Tendance.”
DFW, non-Philo-ite
DFW did not grow up in Philo, Illinois.
David Foster Wallace’s backhand
Did David Foster Wallace hit a backhand with one hand, or two?
Orange Crate Art: Infinite Jest in LEGO® blocks
On the road to the cute-ification of everything.
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DFW plagiarism.
Recently updated
DFW plagiarism.
Recently updated
DFW plagiarism.
Another school principal borrows from DFW’s commencement speech
The inspiration didn’t come from Wallace’s speech. The speech came from Wallace’s speech.
DFW, “Your Liberal-Arts $ at Work”
“Pedantry is always tiresome, but it’s especially tiresome when the pedant doesn’t know what he is talking about.”
Review: Wallace and Garner, Quack This Way
“When it comes to language and usage and writing, there are two kinds of people: those who care, and those who could care less.”
Don’t open the yellow door
This post is for my friends Sara and Stefan and all readers of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest.
DFW book from Madras Press
The Fogle story may be the best thing in the The Pale King.
David Foster Wallace sometimes didn’t know what he was talking about
Pedantry is always tiresome, but it’s especially tiresome when the pedant doesn’t know what he is talking about. A class handout with many mistakes.
DFW Kenyon discrepancies
Three significant discrepancies between the audio and print versions of the 2005 Kenyon College commencement address, accounted for.
DFW, Kenyon, and the Internet
Elizabeth Lopatto explains how David Foster Wallace’s 2005 Kenyon College commencement address became an Internet sensation.
DFW on writing by hand
“Writing by hand and typewriter not only brings out the best in me — it brings out stuff I never would have dreamed was there.”