david foster wallace interview you've probably already read

[Spencer T. Campbell]

I've always felt that there's a lingering
graduate-level-writing-workshop haughtiness that chills Wallace's
fiction (especially the short stories).  His nonfiction has more
heart; I almost feel he's more committed to it, even though he's
usually a hired hand.  In the no-fi he gushes, which can be thrilling.

Spencer

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> On 8/28/06, Joe Varo <vjvaro at verizon.net> wrote:
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> >  For what it's worth, I've always enjoyed DFW's nonfiction more than his
> > fiction.
> >  The essays "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" and "Authority and
> > American Usage" are excellent.
> >  And his book Everything and More, about the concept of infinity, is one of
> > the best bits of science writing I've ever read.
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> >  On 8/28/2006 4:17 PM, Carvill John wrote:
> > Thanks for that, hadn't read it. Just started Infinite Jest this weekend.
> > I'm about 100 pages in and I don't know whether I'm going to (a) race
> > through the rest of the book, love it, recommend it to whoever will listen,
> > or (b) drop-kick it over the hedge into my least favourite neighbour's
> > greenhouse. The interview produces the same ambivalence, the whole thing
> > reads like one of his interminable footnotes, a sort of arch parody of
> > lit-crit pretentiousness. And if he used the term 'recursion' just one more
> > time I think I'd have to track him down and give him a slap.
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