February 2012
25 posts
Memories of David Foster Wallace →
Here’s one of the memories:
I played a tennis match against him when I was in the fifth or sixth grade in Urbana, Illinois. He was a better player, and at match point against me I knew I hit the ball out. I went to the net to congratulate him, but he stood there on the baseline and said, “What are you doing? It was in.” I liked that. He just wanted to keep playing.
I lost track of him and,...
46 Things to Read and See for David Foster... →
7. “The Viking Poem,” written age 6 or 7.
“Thy maysters mind is ouercome with care.”
– Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender
WatchSufjan Stevens, “The Lakes of Canada”
The Kerning Game →
Do you have a typesetter’s eye?
“Songs are just interesting things to be doing with the air.”
– Tom Waits
“If what’s always distinguished bad writing— flat characters, a narrative world...”
– —David Foster Wallace, who wrote really good fiction.
[Onion] Suitcase Spends All Year Looking Forward... →
WatchBonny be workin’ ittt
Various writers provide lists of ten rules for... →
