David Foster Wallace will be here in SF on June 17 at 8 pm. More info:
www.cityboxoffice.com/orderti...area.asp
I'm really looking forward to it. Here's the event description from the above link, sadly lacking details/footnotes:
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Though David Foster Wallace admits to "devoting a lot of energy to creating expectations and then taking pleasure in disappointing them," he clearly takes fiction to a new level. His epic second novel, Infinite Jest, doesn't disappoint critics or readers. It spans 1076 pages, three plot lines, and a large section of endnotes and has earned Wallace the title of "most important writer of his generation." Equally talented in non-fiction, Wallace tackles subjects ranging from hip-hop culture to the dregs of cruise vacations in his popular journalism.
David Foster Wallace grew up on an Illinois farm and studied creative writing at the University of Arizona. Meticulous, intelligent, and undeniably funny, Wallace recently completed the non-fiction work, Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity, as well as a new book of short stories, Oblivion. He teaches Creative Writing at Pomona College.
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www.cityboxoffice.com/orderti...area.asp
I'm really looking forward to it. Here's the event description from the above link, sadly lacking details/footnotes:
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Though David Foster Wallace admits to "devoting a lot of energy to creating expectations and then taking pleasure in disappointing them," he clearly takes fiction to a new level. His epic second novel, Infinite Jest, doesn't disappoint critics or readers. It spans 1076 pages, three plot lines, and a large section of endnotes and has earned Wallace the title of "most important writer of his generation." Equally talented in non-fiction, Wallace tackles subjects ranging from hip-hop culture to the dregs of cruise vacations in his popular journalism.
David Foster Wallace grew up on an Illinois farm and studied creative writing at the University of Arizona. Meticulous, intelligent, and undeniably funny, Wallace recently completed the non-fiction work, Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity, as well as a new book of short stories, Oblivion. He teaches Creative Writing at Pomona College.
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Re: DFW Lecture!
Tue, May 18, 2004 - 5:58 PMOMG Thank you so much for posting that! Too bad I'm in So Cal and can't really get up there on a week night... You'll have to take notes for us all down here!
