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“[F]lapping his arms like Roddy McDowall”
A reference in The Pale King comes into focus.
Re: “distracting little rituals”
What are your preferred forms of work-avoidance?
The Pale King, deskwork
“[S]itting still and concentrating on just one task for an extended period of time is, as a practical matter, impossible.”
“This is the world”
An excerpt from The Pale King
DFW in Peoria
Gary Panetta of the Peoria Journal Star writes about David Foster Wallace and the unfinished novel The Pale King.
Infinite Jest dream
“Why don’t you try some broken ones, and a mercury-chilling motif?”
A Pale King event
In Normal, Illinois, a reading to mark the publication of David Foster Wallace’s unfinished novel.
The Pale King, dullness
“This terror of silence with nothing diverting to do.”
“Share Curiosity. Read Together.”
With apologies to H.A. Rey, Margret Ray, and the gummint.
ML on DFW at Broadcastr
“To mark the arrival of The Pale King, Broadcastr has invited readers to record brief appreciations of David Foster Wallace’s work.” So I did.
A “spect-op”
“On Monday, life in an English town came to a halt as crowds gathered to look at an object floating in a river.”
The Pale King and commerce
The publication date for The Pale King is April 15, but the book is already on sale online and in some bookstores.
“Taste worth dying for!”
The Heart Attack Grill in Chandler, Arizona, seems like an outtake from David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest.
The Pale King, the first review
Publishers Weekly has what appears to be the first review of David Foster Wallace’s unfinished novel The Pale King.
Infinite Jest and Mike Huckabee
“Then there are what I might call your Kamikaze-style liars. These’ll tell you a surreal and fundamentally incredible lie, and then pretend a crisis of conscience and retract the original lie, and then offer you the lie they really want you to buy instead, so the real lie’ll appear as some kind of concession, a settlement with truth. That type’s mercifully easy to see through.”
For Infinite Jest readers only
The Year of the iPad
The Pale King excerpt
An excerpt from David Foster Wallace’s unfinished novel, at the New Yorker
The Infinite Jest sign
“My Mac calls this sign ‘shadowed white circle,’ which sounds like the beginning of a bad haiku.”
Infinite Jest, novelty
The Phoneless Cord
How to improve writing (no. 33)
A comma semicolonized, from Infinite Jest
Thought for the day
Infinite Jest-inspired
Infinite Jest diagram
Character relations in Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace in Newsweek
Materials from the UTA archive
David Foster Wallace's senior year
Two theses, lots of typing
The lobster, considered
Do lobsters feel pain?
David Foster Wallace
There is no such thing as not voting.
"Don't look!"
An Infinite Jest joke
David Foster Wallace
i.m.
Infinite Jest, sadness
A passage about sadness and the inability to express it