Browsing the archives for the David Foster Wallace category

DFW@MLA III

12 Jan, 2010 in David Foster Wallace, The Pale King by Lee

I haven’t had a chance to write up the MLA panel I helped organize, “The Legacy of David Foster Wallace.” It was very well attended — especially for an 8:30 a.m. panel on the last day of the convention — and the talks were all terrific. Fortunately for me, Kathleen Fitzpatrick has written up [...]

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DFW @ MLA II

23 Dec, 2009 in David Foster Wallace, MLA, Uncategorized by Lee

I’m still working on trying to figure out how to restore my older blog postings. I think my XML export file might’ve been corrupted during export. In the worst case scenario, I’ll manually restore my old posts, though that’ll screw up the dates and mean all comments on these posts will be forever [...]

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The Broom of the System

3 Nov, 2007 in David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, Pop Apocalypse, The Broom of the System, dissertation, hipster chapter, person chapter, postirony by Lee

I finished reading David Foster Wallace’s The Broom of the System today (for the first time), part of my preparation to write the Person Chapter of the diss. The writing of the Hipster Chapter also continues, less apace than I’d prefer, but still. I’m reading a fantastic history of the hugely-important literary journal [...]

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