wallace-l: Coverage of DFW

[Matt Bucher]

Even though there are not story-specific footers in Oblivion, we love you,
too, Marie.


On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Marie Mundaca <mungo181 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Yeah, me too.
>
> Damn, I miss this guy. I used to have a lot of imaginary conversations with
> him in my head. I suppose that doesn't have to stop, but... anyway.
> yesterday I was devastated and furious at psychiatry, and today is a tiny
> tiny bit better, but I still have to write a review of Oblivion for the book
> site I write for, and man, is that hard. I hope and hope that he's out there
> still in that sea of energy having light-speed conversations with Kafka.
>
> I used to have a little fantasy that when his next book came around he'd
> request to work with me again and I'd totally do it even though I don't work
> at LB any more and they would be eating copious amounts of Corvus while they
> paid me to chat with my hero on the phone every evening about em-dashes and
> ampersands. David made me work harder and like it. He really was an amazing
> person in the true sense of amazing, at least to me in the few hours I spent
> on the phone with him.
>
> I think of him as my brother in so many ways, and it hurts me that he hurt
> so much, especially when he was so very very kind.
>
> When I get home tonight, I'll take a photo of one of the post-it notes that
> came on the 2nd or 3rd pass of "Host" that said "totally, bitchingly great."
> That was him, in a nutshell.
>
> love to all you guys.
> -Marie
>
> --- On Tue, 9/16/08, Matt Bucher <mattbucher at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Matt Bucher <mattbucher at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: wallace-l: Coverage of DFW
> > To: "wallace-l" <wallace-l at waste.org>
> > Date: Tuesday, September 16, 2008, 4:31 PM
> > 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
> > > --
> > > Bill Stilwell - http://www.marginalia.org/
> > > bill.stilwell at gmail.com
> > >
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