wallace-l: Coverage of DFW

[Christopher J. Pagan]

fun fact: I invited dfw and pete rose to my 1999 wedding. invitation sent to 
ISU english department. I half-expected him to show and then satirize me/my 
family/midwestern weddings/etc. in an essay.

pete rose was a no-show too.

I would've invited obama as well, but didn't know about him until 2003.

cjp

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From: "Marie Mundaca" <mungo181 at yahoo.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 4:44 PM
To: "wallace-l" <wallace-l at waste.org>
Subject: Re: wallace-l: Coverage of DFW

> 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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