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>david foster wallace on charlie rose 1996 (last segment)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8874820733386594323

>david foster wallace on charlie rose 1997

http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/5639

>david foster wallace on german tv

http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek/content/823228#/hauptnavigation/startseite

>david foster wallace reading

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwS5pEfcQNk

>david foster wallace commencement speech (aka this is water)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5THXa_H_N8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSAzbSQqals

>david foster wallace on "prior to"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_sQrxAorDo

>david foster wallace at "le converazioni"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVzhhvCRTCo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsziSppMUS4

>> No.1892637
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1892637

oh and a picture of his girlfriend, karen green

>> No.1892657

He's definitely not charming

>> No.1892662

He's wrong about ''prior to'' as well..think of it in terms of ''a priori to'' and it makes sense..

>> No.1892674

what is this 'avant garde' stuff DFW always talks about?

>> No.1892675

>>1892662

I know what he meant but yeah, it's not true.

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from the dfw archive, some samples from teaching stuff he used when he was lecturing

http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/press/releases/2010/dfw/teaching/

i wish they'd just put everything up

>> No.1892691

>>1892689
why?

your obsessed

>> No.1892695

>>1892691

no shit.

does anyone know of any rare interviews/videos i might have missed?

>> No.1892699

>>1892695

why obsess over a mediocre pynchon wannabe?

>> No.1892704

>>1892689
"I will not force you to let me help you, because this isn't junior high."

I lol'd heartily.

>> No.1892705

>>1892695

This might be of interest to you:
http://www.theawl.com/2011/04/inside-david-foster-wallaces-private-self-help-library

>> No.1892710

I have/had a bunch of pictures of his shit from his collection at the ransom center

>> No.1892711

>>1892699

>the #1 greatest writer of all time
>mediocre

that's what butthurt haters actually believe

>> No.1892723

>>1892711
>#1 greatest writer of all time
>Pynchon wannabe

>> No.1892728

>>1892711
Even DFW would've laughed at you for calling him the greatest writer of all time. He'd also recognize, like so many other writers, what a horrible title that would truly be. The greatest writer of all time would be an immensely sad and pathetic person on many levels.

>> No.1892729

>>1892711

how's high school? bet the other kids are soooo much less intelligent than you.

>> No.1892735

>>1892728

jesus it was a joke, i thought you guys would be up to date with internet references like all the other boards seem to be

>>1892729

i wouldn't call myself remotely intelligent

>> No.1892745

>>1892735
what is the internet joke here?

>> No.1892750

>>1892735
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13esKUJr1hM

I dedicate this to you my friend.

>> No.1892751

>>1892637

>2008
>leaving a wife to grieve

I seriously hope you guys don't do this.

>> No.1892752

>>1892637
lol What is everybody not looking at in this picture? This is amazing. Love the guy looking right at the camera and NYPD blue trying to sneak a peak at some whale tail or something

>> No.1892898

>>1892752
What's so great about it? It's a picture of DFW and some other people staring at something

>> No.1893128

>>1892752

it's also from the le conversazioni in italy

>> No.1893138

>>1892657

he is "charming." by that i mean that he tries really really hard to be charming when his natural inclination is to be self satisfied and condescending. i know guys just like him and they all went to to top schools. they're all completely smug shitheads. Every interview with DFW is just him trying to cover up for his snobbery. it's like he's trying really really hard to be human. the guy was a freakshow.

>> No.1893152

>>1893138

that is completely untrue. i don't know where this whole self-proclaimed genius thing came from, oh wait, it's everyone ELSE calling him a genius constantly, then criticizing him for his apparently smug persona. you only think he's trying to cover it up because you assume there is smugness in the first place.

he actually said that he doesn't want to think other people are not as intelligent as him, because then he'd be writing for dumb people, and he doesn't want that, he wants to write for people who will understand his work.

>> No.1893168

>>1893138
he isn't charming at all. I don't even think he's trying to be. the 'charm', from what I can tell, comes from the guy being socially stunted, realising he is, and trying to fix it; for all his efforts though, he's never quite 'normal'. people detect his effort, they detect his failure, they feel almost sorry for the guy - maybe even empathise with him, and they mistake this endearement, this sympathy - like one would have for a wounded puppy - as charm.

>> No.1893172

>>1893168
that, and he's a famous writer. it's easy to be charming when people already think you're a god.

>> No.1893212

>>1893168

Have you actually read Infinite Jest? Hal is basically himself, and finds himself in many situation where he starts acting awkward like DFW does, but his feelings show that he's just nervous and self-conscious and has so many things going through his head about others will see him.

>> No.1893218

>>1893212
This kind of reads like you're trying to counter him, but you just affirmed everything he said.

>> No.1893236

>>1893218

So you admit he's just shy/awkward/self-conscious but still act like he's a creep or something. This is all from interviews too, you know he might just have been nervous because he was on TV?

Watch the most recent interview, (clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39UJuPogwiY)) where he's probably gotten used to it, he's completely calm and normal.

>> No.1893253

Being self-conscious is the new hip.

>> No.1894978

bump

>> No.1896382

this is a creepy thread