Comments on: Warming Up

By: Creating a Comic

Creating a Comic — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:33:06 +0000

Tackle the Infinite Summer Challenge…

Are you reading anything interesting this summer?
If not, consider joining the Infinite Summer Challenge, in which readers from around the world tackle a modern masterpiece by one of America’s greatest authors:
Join endurance bibliophiles from …

By: lou

lou — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:38:28 +0000

two nights ago i watched kenneth branaugh’s amazing full (over 4 hrs) length version of hamlet and buried there in the (ophelia) grave scene (no pun intended) was a reference to “infinite jest.” in conversation with the grave digger, hamlet examines the skull of the former court jester and finds the term useful in rationalizing and philosophizing about mortal life & death. so we can probably thank shakespeare for the title?

By: Roz

Roz — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:32:37 +0000

There’s also his NYT essay on Roger Federer – also a timely read as Wimbledon 2009 starts today, with Federer gunning for his sixth title.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/sports/playmagazine/20federer.html?ei=5090&en=716968175e36505e&ex=1313726400&pagewanted=all

By: Infinite Summer: What I’ll Be Doing From June Through September « Librarian Science

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:00:44 +0000

[...] feel the need to do it again but want something else to read, the Infinite Summer blog has a nice collection of DFW’s shorter essays that are freely available online now. Although I generally hate [...]

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:40:39 +0000

I had not read any DFW before deciding to join InfSum. I read “Consider The Lobster” — just the essay, not the book — last night, and it really helped whet the appetite. So, thanks for posting these!

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:55:19 +0000

Not exactly on topic, but–Oh God, I just bought it. It’s far heavier than ever I imagined.

More on point, thanks for these. I had heard about he Harper’s PDFs but had been unable to locate them.

By: Nat

Nat — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:25:01 +0000

Not a DFW primary source but very amusing:

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/27769

By: Warming Up for the Infinite Summer « the anxiety of influence

Warming Up for the Infinite Summer « the anxiety of influence — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:47:18 +0000

[...] of the Infinte Summer commence, our friends at ISHQ (Infinite Summer Head Quarters) have provided a list of various essays and short stories by David Foster Wallace, freely available on the interwebs, to [...]

By: iantrevor

iantrevor — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:35:18 +0000

In addition to the wonderful list above, the New Yorker recently published a excerpt from DFW's unfinished Pale King called Wiggle Room.

By: Brad

Brad — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:28:31 +0000

Several excerpts from DFW’s forthcoming “The Pale King” are also available online:

http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2007/02/05/070205fi_fiction_wallace

http://www.harpers.org/media/pdf/dfw/HarpersMagazine-2008-02-0081893.pdf

http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2009/03/09/090309fi_fiction_wallace