David Foster Wallace

Your DFW moment for the night

03.29.2012
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The new volume from University of Mississippi press arrived today, “Conversations with David Foster Wallace.” You can expect a slew of quotations in the next few days. Here’s one from 1993: … managing to be a really alive human being, and also do good work and be as obsessed as you have to be, is [...]

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What do you worship?

06.16.2011

Here’s a classic moment from the late Mr. David Foster Wallace… Because here’s something else that’s true. In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And an outstanding reason [...]

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David Foster Wallace unpacked

03.09.2010

The Henry Ransom at U of Texas just got a million more subscribers to their blog. The Center just became the home of the tragically late David Foster Wallace’s archives, and they’ve unpacked his books, and started making a list of all the words he circled in his dictionary.

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