David Foster Wallace
September 26, 2009
- If you don't want this to happen to you, get rid of the manuscript yourself. A good purge before suicide. And if your demise is unforseen, perhaps some indication of what you want done. As for me - they can publish every scrap. Ghost Writers A new wave of posthumous releases from authors like Vladimir Nabokov, David Foster Wallace and Ralph Ellison raises thorny questions about what the ...
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May 13, 2009
- I have this fantasy, an elaborate, invented dream world, and every so often I give myself over to it, a willing abdication from the cares and concerns that assail me. I leave Earth Prime far behind and transport myself to a whole other place and time: I’m a good deal older but still quite vital; an eccentric octogenarian, retired and living in seclusion after a long and distinguished ...
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March 17, 2009
- Thanks for all of the thoughtful comments on my previous post (showing here: http://www.redroom.com/blog/stephen-evans/i-will-write-no-more-forever). I wanted to expound a bit more - a good sign I guess, for me anyway.I'm a man a few words, and a very slow writer. My two books (one published) each took eight years to write. My first play also took eight years, and my new one is twenty and ...
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March 14, 2009
- These words have been circling in my mind for the last week or so. They are a paraphrase of the last words of Chief Joseph of the Nez Pierce explaining his decision to finally surrender. It is a searing speech you can read here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Joseph The catalyst for me was the recent article in The New Yorker about the struggles and eventual suicide of author David Foster ...
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March 9, 2009
- Two quotes: "Fiction is about what it is to be a fucking human being" and good writing should help readers "become less alone inside."I saw both of these quotes by David Foster Wallace in the March 9 edition of The New Yorker in a story by D.T. Max. They struck me for a number of reasons, one was the sadness of Wallace's death and the fact that in part he killed himself ...
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March 2, 2009
- NEW YORK — A long, unfinished novel by David Foster Wallace is scheduled for a posthumous release next year.
"The Pale King," excerpted in The New Yorker magazine edition coming out Monday, is set in an Internal Revenue Service office in Illinois in the 1980s.
Wallace's longtime publisher, Little, Brown and Company, will release the novel. Little, Brown said in a statement Sunday that the ...
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December 6, 2008
- J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement from Harvard Magazine on Vimeo. I’ve seen some of the Harry Potter films, but was never blown away by him or his creator’s story of rags-to-fame. But this speech, well. Lately, I’ve had some of my students write journal entries in response to David Foster Wallace’s 2005 Kenyon Commencement speech. J.K. Rowling’s Harvard ...
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November 24, 2008
- ” . . . or you write a book and while you write it you are ashamed for every one must think you a silly or a crazy one and yet you write it and you are ashamed, you know you will be laughed at or pitied by every one and you have a queer feeling and you are not very certain and you go on writing. Then someone says yes to it, to something you are liking, or doing or making and then never again ...
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November 7, 2008
- I've had a few days of celebrating, accompanied by mixed emotions. While Obama's election and the clear rejection of the GOP brand by the majority of the country is certainly something to celebrate, the fact that Prop. 8 in California passed and Michele Bachman was re-elected showed me that too many of our people are still entrenched in a painful paradigm of separation and hate. And I ...
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November 1, 2008
