wallace-l: Coverage of DFW

[Matt Bucher]

I'm glad Benjamin Kunkel called out Kakutani:
http://www.nplusonemag.com/dfw-1962-2008



On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Dan Scharf <DScharf at henson.com> wrote:

> What a beautiful note.  It's equal parts comforting and sad to see how
> well-liked he was out in the world, both because of, and separate from, his
> writing.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wallace-l-bounces at waste.org [mailto:wallace-l-bounces at waste.org] On
> Behalf Of Bill Stilwell
> Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 9:46 AM
> To: wallace-l
> Subject: Re: wallace-l: Coverage of DFW
>
> McSweeney's started its remembrances today:
>
> http://www.mcsweeneys.net/
>
> There are some lovely ones, including:
>
> He was my favourite. I didn't feel he had an equal amongst living
> writers. We corresponded and met a few times but I stuttered and my
> hands shook. The books meant too much to me: I was just another
> howling fantod. In person, he had a great purity. I had a sense of
> shame in his presence, though he was meticulous about putting people
> at their ease. It was the exact same purity one finds in the books: If
> we must say something, let's at least only say true things.1 The
> principle of his fiction, as I understand it. It's what made his books
> so beautiful to me, and so essential. The only exception was the math
> one, which I was too stupid to understand. One day, soon after it was
> published, David phoned up, sincerely apologetic, and said: "No, look
> ... you don't need anything more than high school math, that's all I
> really have." He was very funny. He was an actual genius, which is as
> rare in literature as being kind-and he was that, too. He was my
> favourite, my literary hero, I loved him and I'll always miss him.
>
> 1 And let's say them grammatically.
>
> -Zadie Smith
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> Bill Stilwell - http://www.marginalia.org/
> bill.stilwell at gmail.com
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