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but don’t you let me see you weigh the worth

protovietic wrote 2 months ago: Reading “E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction” [1993]  by David Foster Wallace. … more →

Tags: sad dolls, David Foster Wallace, Thao with The Get Down Stay Down, easy, E unibus pluram, a.m. home, the safety of objects, Barbie

In Memoriam: David Foster Wallace8 comments

John S wrote 3 months ago:   One year ago today, David Foster Wallace killed himself. I can remember where I was and how I foun … more →

Tags: On the Long Side, sunday book review, generalizations of otherwise idiosyncratic preferences, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, Shakespeare, subtle odes to david foster wallace, ripping off david foster wallace, Fyodor Dostoevsky

Tendrils3 comments

tssfragile wrote 4 months ago: Yesterday, I spent my lunch hour finishing A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, in the … more →

Tags: Memories, Books, Random, Infinite Jest, Cigars, birds of america

Sudden realization

tssfragile wrote 4 months ago: I like the bench seat in the back of the bus, and it was where I was sitting this morning. Not that … more →

Tags: Music, Books, Random, h1n1, U2

DFW ^ 2

tssfragile wrote 4 months ago: I am reading/struggling through David Foster Wallace’s A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never … more →

Tags: Books, Infinite Jest

A Supposedly Awful Thing I'll Never Do Again

laughorjump wrote 4 months ago:   For the record, I only took one... I haven’t posted anything in forever, and there’s n … more →

Tags: Books, Broken Ankle, Cancer, chafed armpits, crutches, David Foster Wallace, dfw, hospital, MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING

Like: Infinite Jest (Part I)1 comment

mgss wrote 5 months ago: So the problem with reading Infinite Jest, a 1000+ page stab at the great American novel by David Fo … more →

Tags: Like, Socialization, Books, Philosophy, writing, Ayn Rand, David Foster Wallace, dfw, Infinite Jest

hip hip hooray1 comment

festo wrote 9 months ago: i continue to make my way through the aforementioned a supposedly fun thing i’ll never do agai … more →

Tags: Books, no but seriously, Photography, adbusters, backpacking, David Foster Wallace, Don DeLillo, e unibus pluram: television and u.s. fiction, Infinite Jest

Out of time8 comments

BSE wrote 10 months ago: Writing fiction takes me out of time. That’s probably as close to immortal as we’ll ever get. - Davi … more →

Tags: Reading, New Yorker, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, D.T. Max, contemporary american fiction

Fanboy3 comments

dbj wrote 1 year ago: November 13 Briazz Cafe / San Francisco  Over the last two weeks I seem to have unwittingly turned i … more →

Tags: Books, David Foster Wallace, fanboy, Dorks Geeks and Nerds, Powell's, Tennis, Math, puberty, Midwest

DFW: An Addendum

mmmadnez wrote 1 year ago: Just a short little addendum to my previous post about David Foster Wallace. I found a video of him … more →

Tags: Books, David Foster Wallace, Non-Fiction, Getting Away From Already Pretty Much Being Away From I

David Foster Wallace2 comments

stevenhartwriter wrote 1 year ago: David Foster Wallace, author of the novel Infinite Jest and several other works of fiction and nonfi … more →

Tags: The Reading Life, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

David Foster Wallace remembered.

Matt Gonzales wrote 1 year ago: Writer David Foster Wallace hanged himself at his home in California on Friday, Sept. 12, 2008. He w … more →

Tags: Books, best 21st century American novelist, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, tragedy

books and movies

twicka wrote 1 year ago: not technically sick anymore. i think. just a little runny nose. we’re watching the old charlo … more →

Tags: Watch, Movies, Think, Reading, Tudors, The Other Boleyn Girl, Jesus Land, Gravity's Rainbow, House of Leaves


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