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Editor’s Choice
6 May 2012, 6:29 am
Farther Away: Essays by Jonathan Franzen, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 321 pages, $26. David Foster Wallace haunts this book of essays. But then, how could he not? Franzen and Wallace were friends—loving literary siblings in the most volatile way (no Daddy for both to go Oedipal on).
World - david-foster-wallace
Commencement speech season heats up - McKnight's
24 May 2012, 5:14 am
I'm slightly biased toward addresses given by journalists and authors — see Atul Gawande's or David Foster Wallace's speeches — but comedians give the best ones. Give me Conan O'Brien or Jane Lynch over the president any day. Sorry, Mr. President.
Dad Gets A Minivan’ by Dan Zevin - The Boston Globe
24 May 2012, 4:02 am
Zevin isn’t aiming for literary art here. His style is more Dave Barry than David Foster Wallace. What elevates his work above mere irreverence is the quality of insight he brings to relatively familiar terrain. For instance, he zeroes in on ...
SAP exec accused of faking bar codes to steal Legos - CNET News
21 May 2012, 10:00 pm
As if reading a tale written by David Foster Wallace, they then discovered that he'd allegedly sold 2,100 Legos items on eBay, netting $30,000. Oh, and the police also claim they unearthed 32 not entirely legitimate barcode stickers in his car.
The Problem With Pulitzers - Wall Street Journal
21 May 2012, 2:50 pm
I had not read any of them, but the three nominees ("The Pale King" by David Foster Wallace; "Swamplandia" by Karen Russell; and "Train Dreams" by Denis Johnson) were, paradoxically, safe choices. Mr. Johnson was a Pulitzer finalist for an ...
Is There Any Value to a Liberal Arts Education? - Huffington Post
18 May 2012, 12:09 pm
However, I was thinking about this question recently while reading an address made by the late author David Foster Wallace. Wallace provided the commencement address in 2005 to Kenyon College, and unsurprisingly, was quite the provocateur in his talk.
The Great Pulitzer Do-Over: Results Show - New York Times
13 May 2012, 6:56 pm
This year, the Pulitzer Prize committee declined to award a winner in the fiction category, passing over the three finalists selected by a three-person jury: “The Pale King,” by David Foster Wallace; “Swamplandia!” by Karen Russell ...
The Great Pulitzer Do-Over - New York Times
7 May 2012, 8:00 pm
So we asked these eight experts to do it instead. Sam Anderson: “The Pale King,” by David Foster Wallace There are plenty of ways to make the case for David Foster Wallace’s “Pale King” as the winner of 2012’s lost Pulitzer Prize.
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