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𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔 - 𝑾𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑩𝒂𝒄𝒌: 𝑮𝒖𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒂 𝑻𝒆𝒙𝒕𝒔 & 𝑩𝑻𝑺

Is that blank page paralyzing your activism?

William James and David Foster Wallace interrogate the "sneer trap" of modern irony. And from Marvin Gaye’s protests to BTS’s solidarity, let's consider how "New Sincerity" and "Guerilla Texts" can unsettle the status quo and physically alter the world.

https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/waywords_podcast/guerilla-texts-bts-gaye/

#podcast #books #bts #springday #marvingaye #davidfosterwallace #newsincerity

Nova Sinceridade: O projeto literário e filosófico de DFW — a tentativa de escrever ficção que se levasse a sério emocionalmente, depois de décadas em que a ironia se tinha tornado o modo dominante da escrita culta. paulopinto.place/wiki/literat... #david-foster-wallace #novasinceridade

a-nova-sinceridade - Ignoranti...

Pages 10–12 of the Reader contain the text’s most frequently quoted and most disturbing passage: an attempt to describe, from the inside, what The Bad Thing (depression) is. #literature #reading #books #davidfosterwallace paulopinto.xyz/notes/2026/0... Image credits: zero.eu

"It’s a massive and impossible assignment to turn around the cruise ship that is David Foster Wallace’s legacy. Amy could simply recede, as many family members of famous artists do after a tragic and untimely end." —Lindsey Adler for The Small Bow https://www.thesmallbow.com/p/consider-the-sister-2b94?src=longreads #dfw #davidfosterwallace #infinitejest #books #writers #family #grief #longreads

Reminder to watch this #DavidFosterWallace video: https://youtu.be/8juL7cdGj40

The Addiction as a Civilizational Metaphor in Infinite Jest paulopinto.xyz/wiki/literat... #david-foster-wallace #infinite-jest #literature

#InfiniteJest: A Postmodern Saga of Damnation and Salvation (1996) #DavidFosterWallace

via @wallabag

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1996/02/the-alchemists-retort/376533/

“What writers have is a license and also the freedom to sit—to sit, clench their fists, and make themselves be excruciatingly aware of the stuff that we’re mostly aware of only on a certain level. And if the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is. Is to wake the reader up to stuff that the reader’s been aware of all the time.”

#DavidFosterWallace

This 👏 book 👏 is 👏 trashed 👏.

Front and back covers completely severed; stains from god know how many muddy university coffees; and lots of chicken-scratch hand writing, a good portion of which I can't even decipher anymore. Also many rogue question marks 😅.

I did think about giving this to the local library, but it's likely a biohazard at this point. Curious if anyone else has a more egregiously blown out copy than mine! #infinitejest #davidfosterwallace #literature #reading #entertainment

Wrote a passion piece about 2 of my favourite books.

Gödel, Escher, Bach, Wallace: the "o's, d's and p's" in Infinite Jest

"the [typographic encoding] becomes the smoking gun in the case against Avril Incandenza when you appreciate Wallace's intellectual debt to Douglas Hofstadter and Gödel, Escher, Bach – a debt the essay documents in detail below."

https://www.chiply.dev/post-reperspectivizing-orin

#infinitejest #davidfosterwallace #typography #geb #literature

I never could finish Infinite Jest, but this is gold. David Foster Wallace, compellingly stating the obvious with dry poesy.

https://youtu.be/DCbGM4mqEVw?si=HFDVm9FNZ7de3bc9

This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

#davidfosterwallace #compassion #mindfulness #speech

The Turbulent Genius of #DavidFosterWallace

https://www.newsweek.com/2015/01/16/turbulent-genius-david-foster-wallace-297688.html

@aselrod.bsky.social

we're going to have to love and trust the people we don't like or understand. that's how you build a better economy and civics.

#DavidFosterWallace

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_sincerity

RE: https://janvandenberg.blog/eindeloos-vertieren-i-de-bibliotheek-en-vol-gas/

Geen tijd of zin om Eindeloos Vertier zelf te lezen, dan mag je ook meelezen met mij.

#eindeloosvertier #infinitejest #davidfosterwallace

Eindeloos Vertieren deel 1. Notities tijdens het lezen. Wat spreekt me aan? Hoe ziet ETA eruit volgens AI? Ik heb het gevraagd.

Michael Silverblatt van het programma Bookworm is de beste literaire interviewer die ooit heb gehoord.

David Foster Wallace zou vandaag 64 jaar zijn geworden. Ware het niet dat hij in 2008 overleed op 46-jarige leeftijd. Zelfde cijfers, andere volgorde.

Maar dit wist je mogelijk al. Ten minste, als je deze site af en toe bezoekt. Ik schrijf hier al een aantal jaar veel en vaak over DFW.

En de laatste tijd extra vaak.

Want, overmorgen komt de Nederlandse vertaling uit van Infinite Jest: […]

Ich glaub, ich bin ein bisschen verknallt in diesen Vorschlag von David Vinchar für den #Genre-Begriff #Necromodernismus für Romane von z.B. #MarkZDanielewski, #AlanMoore und #DavidFosterWallace.

»Literatur als Entropiemaschine, als eine Nekropole der Signifikanten … gebrochen, provisorisch, gespenstisch heimgesucht … Dies ist ein Schreiben, das im Leichnam des Romans west, ihn mit geisterartigen Signalen weiterhin am Leben erhält«, wie der Perlentaucher exzerpziert.

https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/necromodernist-architectures-in-contemporary-writing/

Never mind the lit-bros: Infinite Jest is a true classic at 30 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/feb/07/never-mind-the-lit-bros-infinite-jest-is-a-true-classic-at-30 #DavidFosterWallace #Books #Fiction #Culture

Hoe kwam Infinite Jest aan haar wolken? En een GQ artikel over Infinite Jest. En alle audio interviews ooit met David Foster Wallace.

Gister verscheen een Woord van de Vertaler in de Eindeloos Vertier nieuwsbrief. Vertaler Robbert-Jan Henkes vertelt daarin hoe hij een bepaalde betekenis over het hoofd zag. Pas na publicatie zag hij het.

Het was geen typfout. Ook die kunnen er nog in zitten. En hoe dat kan?

Het komt: zo in boekvorm lees je het heel anders dan op je scherm of als uitgeprinte drukproef. Er vallen heel andere […]