http://www.andbutso-austin.com/Celebrate Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace, and the end of Infinite Summer:
And But So: A Tribute to David Foster WallaceSeptember 26, 2009, 5:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Salvage Vanguard Theater, Austin, Texas
Readings and performances from Wallace’s works. Music, food, drink. Among our readers and performers are
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Matt Bucher: Publisher of
Elegant Complexity: A Study of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest; administrator of the Wallace-l listserv.
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L.B. Deyo: President of Austin’s Dionysium and the author of
Invisible Frontier: Exploring the Tunnels, Ruins & Rooftops of Hidden New York; co-founder of Jinx multimedia and editor of
Jinx magazine.
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Connor Hopkins: Founder and Artistic Director of the Trouble Puppet Theater Company.
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Mary LaMotte Silverstein: Former editor at
Harper’s Magazine; worked with David Foster Wallace on the essay “Tense Present.”
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Doug Dorst: Author of the novel
Alive in Necropolis, the play
Monster in the Dark, and the short-story collection
The Surf Guru. His stories have appeared in
McSweeney’s, Ploughshares, The Atlantic Unbound, The Sun, ZYZZYVA, and other journals.
Have a favorite David Foster Wallace passage? Bring it along—we’ll end the event with an open mic.
FREE and open to the public
Want more info? Contact Kathryn Rogers at Rogers.editorial [at] gmail.com or Matt Bucher at mattbucher [at] gmail.com