David Foster Wallace and the Fish
Submitted by wjames on Tue, 09/16/2008 - 21:34.
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Draw your attention to David Foster Wallace, of course, because he is dead. That's what I'm doing. I found a good place to start. It's a commencement address, courtesy of marginalia.org, that he gave at Kenyon University in 2005. If you don't like transcribed speeches, you could start with, say, "Infinite Jest," which is over 1,000 pages and features about 100 pages of footnotes. Like you, I'm just discovering him, myself. If nothing else, the first thing I noticed was: Wow, an artist who doesn't like the smell of his own bullshit, maybe, even secretly. Not anyone else's either. Read above speech, at least, before you graduate. It's probably better advice than you would otherwise have gotten. |
