October 2008
30 posts
September 2008
43 posts
David Foster Wallace interviewed by Charlie Rose,... →
perpetua:
This is a very heartbreaking interview in retrospect. I have some friends who are very troubled by DFW’s suicide, mostly because they admire and relate to him, and they now have concern about their careers, and their happiness and mental health. This interview hammers a lot of that home, especially when he speaks about feeling as though his work is misunderstood, even by those who enjoy...
David Foster Wallace on Politics
“Political discourse is now a formulaic matter of preaching to one’s own choir and demonizing the opposition. Everything’s relentlessly black-and-whitened. Since the truth is way, way more gray and complicated than any one ideology can capture, the whole thing seems to me not just stupid but stupefying. Watching O’Reilly v. Franken is watching bloodsport. How can any of this possibly help...
Michael Dirda on 'Anathem' - washingtonpost.com →
This review bothers me. I don’t read a ton of sci-fi, but I read Anathem for work. All 937 pages of it. On my vacation. And the reason it bugs me, is that while I’m reading Dirda talk about death rays on the planet Orth, I know, having read this book for nine-hundred pages, that Orth is a language, and that there are no death rays. Like Wired, apparently Dirda’s review copy...
