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Anyone else here listen to bookworm? His DFW interviews are in the canon
https://www.kcrw.com/people/david-foster-wallace

>> No.9915726

It's probably the best literature podcast out there.

>> No.9915734

>>9915724
He is /our guy/

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>>9915724
DFW's celebrity is vastly more interesting than his fiction 2bh

the incredible amount of media debris he generated--his interviews, biopics, essays (academic or otherwise), commencement speeches, syllabi and NYT articles on his life and work--is what people like to consume, not his writing, which is pedantic, deliberately boring and pretentious

>> No.9915829

>>9915813
I would throw his nonfiction into the category of "media debris" that laypeople slurp up. His most effective role is that of culture critic, as opposed to fiction writer. If you read, for instance, the Illinois State Fair piece, it becomes clear that he foresaw the PC/normal white folk divide excruciatingly present rn. And the Cruise Ship essay too, is apt culture critique.

>> No.9915835

>>9915813
so this is water

>> No.9915838

>>9915829
Type "right now" you try hard to be casual faggot.

>> No.9915881

>>9915829

More like DeLillo in philosophy phd clothes

>> No.9915892

I've listened to every episode. I agree, the DFW ones are the best. It's one of the only interviews where Wallace trusted and respected the interviewer enough to open up about his work. When Silverblatt mentions the fractals and Wallace goes "I heard you were a close reader" everything changed and they started have incredibly deep conversations from there on out.

>> No.9916129

>>9915724
>Friendship ended with Franzen, Silverblatt is my bestfriend now