Those notecards? My book, in sum. On each ruled side [not pictured], the first and last sentence of a piece of Critique of Pure Reason. On the other, unruly side, the title of the story in question. Why bother? Mostly for you, or rather, those of you out there who will perhaps read the book. [...]
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Daniel Green’s The Reading Experience
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Daniel Davis Wood, David Foster Wallace, Don DeLillo, Gospel of Anarchy, Infinite Patience, Justin Taylor, The Reading Experience, Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis on September 27, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The blog, The Reading Experience, is a wonderful place. Daniel Green’s articles are very informed, looking at literary works and literary questions from many perspectives. This is from the “about” page: I was an academic scholar and critic before I began writing for this blog. I still write the occasional “academic” essay, and my approach [...]
Book Hunting in San Francisco: Wallace, Wallace Stevens
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ardvark Books, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Christine Schutt, Community Thrift Store, Cormac McCarthy, David Foster Wallace, Frank Kermode, Henry James, Home Land, John Hawkes, Nightwork, Paul Valery, Sam Lipstye, San Francisco, The Collected Works of Paul Valery, The Crossing, The Quarterly, The Wings of the Dove, The World within the Word, Travesty, Wallace Stevens, William H. Gass on August 7, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I love San Francisco. Especially the book stores and thrift stores. The Community Thrift Store in the Mission has been a goldmine for me the last six years and each time I come here I check in and check out with jewels for about $1.50 each. I remember going there and finding the first six [...]
New Issues of The Quarterly Conversation and Rain Taxi
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged David Foster Wallace, Evan La, Helen Vendler, John Ashbery, John Hawkes, Lance Olsen, Oblivion, Rain Taxi, The Passion Artist, The Quarterly Conversation on June 7, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Issue 24 of The Quarterly Conversation has a great David Foster Wallace symposium, with seven essays, including Lance Olsen on Oblivion. Also reviews of books by Rimbaud, Ovid, and Andrew Ervin, as well as an interview with Eliot Weinberger. My review of Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries by Helen Vendler is also in the issue. [...]
From the Barbaric Heart: Michiko reviews my unwritten book!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Franzen, Michiko Kakutani on May 17, 2011 | 4 Comments »
I’m going to post three short things regarding the NY Times book reviewer Michiko Kakutani. They are mostly lies and venom, except one, the third, which is God’s truth. All of my recent posts, including this one, are part of a 2,000 page (very much hypothetical, or 3/4 hypothetical) mega-novel/memoir/meditation. I am so irritated by [...]
Ignorance Is a Kind of Sickness
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Big Other, David Foster Wallace, Geoff Dyer, Ignorance, John Madera, My literary allergy, Stupidity on April 13, 2011 | 14 Comments »
Have you seen Geoff Dyer’s I’m-just-thinking-out-loud-here piece: “My literary allergy,” a pseudo-contrarian response to the work of David Foster Wallace, a piece that seemingly cuts through the hagiographic haze enhaloing Wallace?
Good Old NeonLeaks: Transparency in Politics and Literature
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged David Foster Wallace, Good Old Neon, Hamlet, Liar Liar, transparency, WikiLeaks on December 13, 2010 | 24 Comments »
The WikiLeaks story is dramatic on so many levels, with a character at center stage, Julian Assange, worthy of Shakespeare: accused of sexual impropriety and putting lives at risk, touting an idealistic mission of transforming global geopolitics by turning them inside-out, inspiring the creation of a hall of mirror-sites and spawning cyber-attacks on his behalf [...]
We Know Best What’s Nearest (Living Art Backwards)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Céline, David Foster Wallace, Don DeLillo, Jackie Wang, James Joyce, Jonathan Franzen, Kurt Vonnegut, Lydia Davis, Symbolist poetry, Thomas Pynchon, Tim Jones-Yelvington, Ulysses on December 13, 2010 | 28 Comments »
A quick follow-up to Tim’s post here, which was itself in response to Jackie Wang’s post here. Wang had asked: Do you feel a duty to read and acknowledge your literary, theoretical, and musical foremothers? I’d argue that most people have no idea who their artistic forebears are. For example: students tell me all the [...]
Innovation’s Altar (or, what’s So New about Innovation?)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Blowup, Bram Stoker, David Foster Wallace, Dracula, Infinite Jest, innovation, Leprechaun 4: In Space, Leprechaun in the Hood, Malachi Black, Paul Kincaid, Ron Silliman, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen on February 24, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Regarding “Innovation Redux” by Malachi Black and this post by Ron Silliman (which were both partially responding to something I wrote regarding innovation): I find that one of the sticking points on this subject is that “innovation” is often defined too broadly, or not defined at all. And so it’s easy for terms like “innovative [...]
All hail the ILLiad (not to be confused with that other Iliad)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Aimee Parkison, Antonio Negri, Bernadette Mayer, David Foster Wallace, Frank Stanford, Gary Young, Gordon Lish, Helene Cixous, ILLiad, Jacques Roubaud, Janet Mitchell, Ken Sparling, Marilyn Hacker, Mark Halliday, Michael Hardt, Nina Shope, Peter Handke, Sara Greenslit, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Zachary Mason on February 11, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Do you know of ILLiad? It’s an interlibrary loan system from which I’ve recently requested and received the following books (that my own university library does not have): Gordon Lish’s Mourner at the Door and My Romance and Krupp’s Lulu Helene Cixous’s Coming to Writing and Other Essays Ken Sparling’s Dad says he saw you at the [...]
Are You a Grammar, Usage, and Style Junkie?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ammon Shea, Chicago Manual of Style, David Foster Wallace, Diane Stevenson, Gary Lutz, Grammar Desk Reference, Karen Elizabeth Gordon, Modern American Usage, Oxford English Dictionary, The Deluxe Transitive Vampire, The Element of Style, The New Well-Tempered Sentence on December 21, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Have you heard about Ammon Shea, the man who’d read all twenty volumes of the Oxford English Dictionary and then written a memoir about it? When I’d heard about him I became jealous. Ever since I can remember I’ve wanted to read an entire dictionary. I’ve never done it though. I have, however, read some [...]
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