The photo was taken at a reading for Booksmith at All Saints Church in 2006
www.thehowlingfantods.com/dfw.htm
a collection of reactions
www.thehowlingfantods.com/dfw/dfw-1962-2008.html
There is also a lot of discussion on the wallace-l email list (I've
been
a member for years)
www.waste.org/mail/?list=wallace-l
Ed wrote about the reading
www.edrants.com/operation-dfw/
One of the pieces he read was for Rolling Stone about September 11th.
He died on September 12th, 2008
The 9-11 piece doesn't seem to be online, but his profile of the 2000 version of John McCain is (an uncut version is available as a short book)
www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/18420304/the_weasel_t...
He reads a 20 minute except about 10 minutes in to the Character
Assasination episode
of this American Life (which sadly describes the current campaign
except McCain has become Bush)
thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=160
He also talks about politics and McCain in the Believer interview with Dave Eggers
www.believermag.com/issues/200311/?read=interview_wallace
and the end of this intro essay is very political
www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/catalog/titledetail.cfm?text...
it mentions this Mark Danner piece
www.markdanner.com/articles/show/iraq_the_war_of_the_imag...
and this EO Wilson letter
sexandreligionnews.blogspot.com/2006/08/apocalypse-now.html
and this brief excerpt on voting
zakstar.wordpress.com/2008/09/13/qod-david-foster-wallace/
Host on Talk Radio from the Atlantic
www.theatlantic.com/doc/200504/wallace
And his profile of Robert Federer
www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/sports/playmagazine/20federer....
Good People, a short story
www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2007/02/05/070205fi_fi...
a few interviews
www.salon.com/09/features/wallace1.html
www.believermag.com/issues/200311/?read=interview_wallace
www.theconnection.org/shows/2004/06/20040625_b_main.asp
www.charlierose.com/guests/david-wallace
www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2003/10/26/appro...
www.stim.com/Stim-x/0596May/Verbal/dfwtalk.html
search.twitter.com/search?q=David+Foster+Wallace
search.twitter.com/search?q=DFW (though some will be about the airport).
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grimhund 57 months ago | reply
:-( RIP
t_calloni 55 months ago | reply
Thank you, David. Rest in Peace.
IdeasForPublicConsumption 11 months ago | reply
Great photo Steve. Thank you for sharing it.
I've included DFW's address on my page of Pillar Ideas, as I think his address to Kenyon College in 2005 entitled "This is Water" is brilliant and needs to be shared. I linked the photo back to here.
Thanks again for sharing your photo and placing it in the Commons!
Mitch