Articles tagged "david foster wallace"

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Brief Interviews with Hideous Men dir. John Krasinski (trailer)

by Eleanore Catolico

[16.Sep.09] :. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, a collection of 23 short stories by David Foster Wallace, is now a feature film directed by The Office‘s John Krasinski and opening September...

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Marginal Utility

Infinite Flameout

by Rob Horning

[28.Jul.09] :. I really wanted to get with the zeitgeist and read David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest this summer. But at page 236, in the middle of a unparagraphed stream-of-consciousness passage...

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Books Feature

This is Water: Remembering David Foster Wallace

by Chris Osmond and Will Layman

[18.Sep.08] :. Nicholson Baker. Bill Murray. Mark Leyner. David Byrne. Steve Martin. The Coen Brothers. And in the middle of it all, David Foster Wallace.

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David Foster Wallace RIP

by Craig Fehrman

[14.Sep.08] :. The Internet is alight with the news of David Foster Wallace’s suicide. This is hitting me hard, not only because of Wallace’s youth, talent, and unfinished business, but because of my...

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Books Review

Lady Lazarus by Andrew Foster Altschul

by Patrick Schabe

[19.Jun.08] :. Lady Lazarus is a naked lunch. The circuit is closed. The simulacrum ironically, paradoxically, signifies everything.

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Column: South Meridian

The Resilient Works of Roberto Bolaño: Raccoon-Resistant, Water Resistant, Immortal

by Marcelo Ballvé

[3.May.07] :. Roberto Bolaño's Los Detectives Salvajes, like so many good works, traverses time, language, cultures, and survives a bit battered, but little worse for the wear.

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Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity by David Foster Wallace

by Anne K. Yoder

[2.Dec.03] :. This account of infinity is enough to make a head reel, as paradoxes, mind games, and riddles that left the greatest minds in mathematics stumped for ages are packed into a matter of a few hundred pages.