Comments on: David Foster Wallace, R.I.P. http://www.thearkansasproject.com/david-foster-wallace-rip/ Your Source for News and Views on Arkansas Politics, Media and More Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:02:23 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Cory http://www.thearkansasproject.com/david-foster-wallace-rip/comment-page-1/#comment-357 Cory Wed, 17 Sep 2008 04:03:28 +0000 http://www.thearkansasproject.com/?p=1440#comment-357 I read it. Cry baby. I read it. Cry baby.

]]> By: David Kinkade http://www.thearkansasproject.com/david-foster-wallace-rip/comment-page-1/#comment-339 David Kinkade Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:42:40 +0000 http://www.thearkansasproject.com/?p=1440#comment-339 So does anyone else besides you and me read this blog, or is it just destined to be us talking to each other? That's even more depressing than this "famous author commits suicide" post. D. So does anyone else besides you and me read this blog, or is it just destined to be us talking to each other? That’s even more depressing than this “famous author commits suicide” post.
D.

]]> By: Dan Greenberg http://www.thearkansasproject.com/david-foster-wallace-rip/comment-page-1/#comment-338 Dan Greenberg Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:32:02 +0000 http://www.thearkansasproject.com/?p=1440#comment-338 Some of Wallace's best work is on tennis. The first thing I ever read by him was his "Tennis, Trigonometry, and Tornadoes: A Midwestern Boyhood." I remember stopping in the middle and looping back to the very beginning, just being astonished and savoring what an incredible piece of writing it was. http://www.harpers.org/media/pdf/dfw/HarpersMagazine-1991-12-0000710.pdf See also, more recently, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/sports/playmagazine/20federer.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin Some of Wallace’s best work is on tennis. The first thing I ever read by him was his “Tennis, Trigonometry, and Tornadoes: A Midwestern Boyhood.” I remember stopping in the middle and looping back to the very beginning, just being astonished and savoring what an incredible piece of writing it was.

http://www.harpers.org/media/pdf/dfw/HarpersMagazine-1991-12-0000710.pdf

See also, more recently,

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/sports/playmagazine/20federer.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin

]]> By: David Kinkade http://www.thearkansasproject.com/david-foster-wallace-rip/comment-page-1/#comment-337 David Kinkade Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:20:28 +0000 http://www.thearkansasproject.com/?p=1440#comment-337 Wallace wrote an astonishingly good profile of tennis player Michael Joyce for Equire in 1996 that is just required reading. Period. I couldn't find it online, but then I only looked for about 60 seconds before getting bored. It's in the essay collection "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again," and I'll be reading it again in Wallace's honor. D. Wallace wrote an astonishingly good profile of tennis player Michael Joyce for Equire in 1996 that is just required reading. Period. I couldn’t find it online, but then I only looked for about 60 seconds before getting bored. It’s in the essay collection “A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again,” and I’ll be reading it again in Wallace’s honor.
D.

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