wallace-l: Circulation of DFW stuff

[Ryan N.]

Ah, one of the benefits of working in the private sector.  If I used  
MY mailroom/copyroom to mail out random packages to people around the  
country all the sudden they'd be calling it "misuse of public funds"  
and "taxpayers" would be all angry about "bureaucratic waste" and  
"abusing the public trust".  You mean ALL of that money was supposed  
to go to educating your kids?  My bad.  You lawyers get to have all  
the fun.

By the way, George is totally awesome for doing this.  Again.

- Ryan

On Sep 17, 2008, at 12:33 PM, George Carr wrote:

> I appreciate the offer, Ryan, but it's no problem at all.  I have a
> mailroom/copyroom at my office, which is free of charge for people
> with my seniority, so they'll be doing most of the actual work.  If
> anybody wants to cancel their request to me in favor of downloading
> the thing from Ryan's site, just let me know, and you'll be saving my
> company a couple bucks in postage.
>
> I'll be copying the Brief Interviews CDs myself, on my home computer,
> but that doesn't involve much effort; just a couple of evenings of
> babysitting the CD swapping and labeling while I read or watch
> something more interesting.  More people have requested the CDs than
> the Reader, probably because they downloaded the Reader already.  If
> Ryan or someone wants to host downloads of those files, too, I have no
> objection.  I never cleared the copyright for the project, though, so
> I'd appreciate it if everyone involved could please work hard not to
> make any profit from reproducing the CDs or disseminating the
> recordings, so that I can plausibly claim they were produced solely
> for study and criticism under US "fair use" doctrine.  Or if somebody
> wants to call Bonnie and see if she'll grant a posthumous license, I'm
> up for that, too.  :)
>
> The CDs will go out in the same packages as the Readers, for those who
> requested both.  Everything should be mailed by next week, and I can
> turn my attention to the updated Reader.
>
> Thanks to all,
> George
>
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 1:34 AM, Ryan N. <lists at theknowe.net> wrote:
>> And for those that would like to save George some work - maybe hold
>> out on a paper copy from him until he puts together the new reader  
>> - a
>> digital copy of it is available at: http://theknowe.net/dfwfiles/pdfs/Carr-The_David_Foster_Wallace_Reader.pdf
>>
>> I don't know if we ever made the entire document searchable (OCRed  
>> it)
>> but I now own Adobe Acrobat Professional and could get that done in
>> the next day or two.  Also, if you want the individual stories/essays
>> you could get them (all in searchable versions) from Matt's site http://www.thehowlingfantods.com/dfw/uncollected-dfw.html
>>  It's still worth it to get the entire DFW Reader file, however, for
>> all of the Wallace-l contributed essays at the beginning.
>>
>> Just trying to save you some work, George.
>>
>> - Ryan
>>
>> On Sep 16, 2008, at 3:47 PM, Renato Parada wrote:
>>
>>>> Just a reminder that I produced two quasi-underground DFW  
>>>> projects in
>>>> 2005, that are yours for the asking.  One is an inch-thick chapbook
>>>> of
>>>> DFW's uncollected magazine writing (some of which was later  
>>>> collected
>>>> in CtL, and most of which has subsequently been archived online),
>>>> also
>>>> including essays by wallace-l people.
>>>
>>> For the brazilian members of the list -- I have a copy of George`s
>>> uncollected DFW`s works.
>>>
>>> If anybody wants a copy, please let me now. It will make me a little
>>> happier too.