DFW blues howler
David Foster Wallace writing about a subject he must have known little about.
Bryan Garner on snoot
Bryan Garner glosses David Foster Wallace’s “snoot .”
Mitt Incandenza
Two guys who’ll say anything.
Bicycles, streetcars, annular systems
Justin Hollander cautions against ditching “good old paper,” pointing out that the merits of such once-passé technologies as bicycles and streetcars have of late been recognized anew.
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“Does a curious sentence in the Oxford American Writer’s Thesaurus have anything to do with David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest? Now there’s an answer.”
The new DFW biography
To its credit, D. T. Max’s biography deepens the enigma of David Foster Wallace’s character. But it also leaves much unsaid.
DFW, thesaurus entries
Did David Foster Wallace have something to do with a very strange sample sentence in the Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus?
“Aggregating with attitude”?
Like it says.
Cities and advertising
Life imitates David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest: the New York Times reports on cities raising money by selling advertising on fire trucks, police cars, rescue helicopters, and school buses.
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“Nonplussed,” correctly used, in Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace, nonplussed
Several years ago I came to realize that I misunderstood the meaning of the word nonplussed. So I am amused to see David Foster Wallace using the word correctly in his first novel, The Broom of the System.
Infinite Jest in the App Store
The App Store is on drugs.
A “spect-op” in Los Angeles
A 340-ton boulder is delivered to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
The “FaceTime Facelift”
For readers of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest (1996), life is once again imitating art.
From the Life Photo Archive
A mask for lips.
Social relations and technology
Dartmouth student Benjamin Schwartz on Facebook and Infinite Jest’s video telephony.
Infinite Jest and Liberal Arts
“The screenplay is salted with a love of literature, and David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest plays a key role. “That book really messes you up,” Radnor said. “But read it.”
Definitive Jest
Jarett Myskiw’s Definitive Jest: “a vocabulary-building and SNOOT-approved word-of-the-day blog centered around David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest.”
Art imitates life imitates art (M*A*S*H)
M*A*S*H in east-central Illinois and Infinite Jest.
Foot Clinic sign
On West Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, and In David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King.
Panhandling and handshakes
Dan Ariely’s account of experiments in panhandling reminded me of a passage in Infinite Jest.
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More on Infinite Jest and film.
Eschaton-inspired video
The Decemberists make an Infinite Jest-inspired video.
Pale King review
Mine, in World Literature Today
DFW as a character in a novel
David Foster Wallace in someone else’s fiction: I guess it was bound to happen.
Bryan Garner and David Foster Wallace
“Do you want your students to be SNOOTs?”
Principal borrows from DFW’s commencement speech
Middle-school principal borrows without attribution from David Foster Wallace.
Federer v. Nadal
David Foster Wallace on Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal: “Apollo and Dionysus. Scalpel and cleaver. Righty and southpaw.”
Re: tornadoes
David Foster Wallace: “Tornadoes were, in our part of Central Illinois, the dimensionless point at which parallel lines met and whirled and blew up. They made no sense.”
The Pale King, making conversation
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