Writing Worth Reading
Writing Worth Reading
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In memory of one of America's finest modern fiction writers
David Foster Wallace, on self-help
"If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish"
Entertainment provides relief. Art provokes engagement
Fine, detailed evaluation of troubled life, and works of David Foster Wallace. "With the benefit of time, it will be recognised that Wallace had less in common with Eggers and Franzen than he did with Dostoevsky and Joyce"
"He conjured the world in two-hundred-word sentences that mixed formal diction and street slang, technicalese and plain speech; his prose slid forward with a controlled lack of control that mimed thought itself"
On David Foster Wallace, "a writer who kept the landscape of American literature in a state of energized flux". Part-memoir, part-review of Wallace's posthumously published novel, "Pale King", said here to be good but not great
David Foster Wallace's reputation was waning when he committed suicide in 2008. But in death his stature has grown—from cult figure to great writer. PhD theses, conferences, critical works are multiplying. Is he the new James Joyce?
To understand the fiction of David Foster Wallace, it helps to understand Wittgenstein. Wallace was going to be an academic philosopher, until depression turned him towards writing. Philosophical substructure underpins novels
A how-to-write blog post that does actually tell you how to write. So long as you plan to write in the style of David Foster Wallace.
Left-field take on David Foster Wallace from someone who appears allergic to his style: "Hemingway said that the test of a good book is how much you can throw away... Start taking away from DFW, and you don’t know where to stop"
