wallace-l: Coverage of DFW

[Matt Bucher]

Another weird one:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/6010091.html

"At the beginning he didn't say much, seemed mildly uncomfortable, and
things went downhill from there. When I confessed how little of
Infinite Jest I'd read, he didn't disguise his irritation. Groping for
some line of conversation I remarked that his prose style reminded me
of Rabelais, the 16th-century French comic writer -- or at least what
I remembered of Rabelais, whom I'd read two decades earlier. By that
probably ludicrous comparison I meant to pay compliment to the manic
verbal energy and inventiveness of Infinite Jest -- the zigs and zags
of the prose, with clause tumbling over clause, the digressions, the
humor. I asked whether Rabelais had influenced him.

Wallace looked at me as though I'd lost my mind, mumbled something to
the effect that no, he didn't know anything about Rabelais. You could
feel the air getting sucked out of the room. The interview continued
for another 20 desultory minutes, but I left knowing I didn't have the
material to write a decent story."


On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 7:38 PM, Marco Carbone <marco.carbone at gmail.com> wrote:
> And I hadn't seen this interview with Bonnie Nadell until now:
>
> http://www.observer.com/2008/arts-culture/david-foster-wallaces-agent
>
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Paul Jakubowski
> <pauljakubowski at comcast.net> wrote:
>> The Bonnie Nadell story at the end of this is cute:
>>
>> http://www.observer.com/2008/media/gerry-howard-discovering-editing-and-hatching-david-foster-wallace
>>
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