wallace-l: Coverage of DFW

[Matt Bucher]

http://www.playboy.com/magazine/features/david-foster-wallace/
Playboy is saying that this piece is the first fiction DFW published in a
major magazine.

They also have a tribute from Fiction Editor Alice K. Turner:
http://www.playboy.com/blog/2008/09/david-foster-wallace-19622008.html

Uh, NSFW.


On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Marco Bertoli <ipofrigio at jumpy.it> wrote:

> >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...
>
> Absolutely it doesn't, Marie.
>
> I can't tell you how many times, when facing some matter which left
> me dubious or puzzled or even fascinated in a way I could not
> completely fathom or  made me uncomfortable, I resorted to the
> thought: what would DFW make of this? if you think  that at times it
> could  be such unwieldy issues as Italian politics or economy (I live
> in Italy), you'll see how far out  things could get...
>
> But it helped, every blessed time it helped, a way or another. He has
> been such a prop and an inspiration to me for over ten years now, a
> solace at times; me, a guy so afar from him in space and culture and
> experiences, who never met him in person. I have seen many people
> over here, people of the leftist persuasion and staunchily
> anti-everything american, learning to understand and finally
> appreciate the US for what best they have to offer mainly through
> David's writing (his opera omnia is translated in Italian). I have
> seen copies of his Kenyon commencement address circulate and being
> prizeld in the most unlikey circles in makeshift translations. I have
> even seen avowed enemies of the novel as a genre poring over IJ for
> months, to declare in the end how the experience had made them more
> intelligent than they used to be.
>
> I don't think there are words yet to describe what charismatic,
> unusual, probably unwilling ambassador of the best of US culture DFW
> has been.
>
> I feel really carried away. I'm sorry for the broken English, these
> days even more wretched than usual.
>
> Marco
>
>
>
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