The older I get the more I truly believe ignorance is bliss, especially if you’re the type to put heroes on a pedestal. I am that type and while the crumbling of the pedestal is…
Posts tagged David Foster Wallace
Sweeps week
What if David Foster Wallace wrote a super accessible novel without end notes, but still filled with his signature loony characters, absurd situations and hilarious dialogue? Dum-dum-dum. He did! Before his brain got too so…
Of course you end up becoming even more thrilled by DFW
As I was reading Infinite Jest, I was simultaneously reading Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace, a straight up five-day dialogue between the author David Lipsky…
Gut ripping writer envy
This might be a bunch of hooey, but I think that reading Infinite Jest made my brain bigger. It is so massive, the paragraphs so dense, that a reader has no choice but to slow…
Although of course you end up becoming yourself
There is no way for me to adequately review David Lipsky’s erm, book-length interview? biography? of David Foster Wallace, Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself. Why? Because I approached the book like it…
6 questions we always ask: Erik Thompson, rock & roll writer
First I will start with the facts, and then I’ll insert an embarrassing confession, just to keep things interesting. So here’s the facts: Erik Thompson is a local music writer. He writes for City Pages,…
6 questions we always ask: Jeff Kamin, Books & Bars moderator and rockstar reader
Every other week we are inundated with stories about the death of the novel and the book and the short story. On the opposite week we get stories about how someone is bringing it all…
When Stephen King makes you cry
There is only one thing to do while your boyfriend is part of a world-wide online project devoted to reading the book Infinite Jest over the course of three months: Pick up your own big…
6 questions we always ask — Jake Mohan, drummer, writer, newest MN Reads contributor
Yeah, I cannot deny that I’m pretty excited to have Jake Mohan writing for MN Reads. I first discovered Jake’s writing years ago on his personal blog The Dependent Clause. His writing is so good…
Book Links: Max Ross interviews Junot Diaz, a memorial for DFW, and books + alcohol
Over at The Rake Max Ross interviews Junot Diaz, author of the Pulitzer-prize winning The Brief and Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao (which I will finish reading some day) and the fantastic collection of short…
Book Links: Flannery O’Connor reads
Yowza! Largehearted Boy found a site that’s made a Flannery O’Connor lecture and reading available. Now, you can listen to O’Connor read A Good Man is Hard to Find. I am downloading it now, and…
Book Links: A Chuck Klosterman extravaganza
GalleyCat has an interview with Jeffrey Friedman director of “Howl” a movie about the life and times of poet Allen Ginsberg. When I was in college I memorized large chunks of the poem. So enamored…