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| Wednesday, April 27, 2011 12:46PM | | | | The Pale King Panel Discussion | Tags: David Foster Wallace, Pale King, Infinite Jest, Michael Pietsch, Laura Miller, Sandro Veronesi, Rick Moody, Karen Green, William Vollman, Harry Ransom Center, UT Austin, drafts, manuscripts, Howling Fantods, Infinite Summer
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The Pale King conversation Tuesday night was held at the Old Gym on Mulberry Street, a fitting venue to talk about David Foster Wallace. The florescent lights kept dimming and undimming themselves, the stage was way far up, too far up, and the retro "Home" and "Visitor" signs seemed to take on an almost meaningful aspect. It was a good place to contemplate rigor, perseverance, and boredom.
Salon book editor Laura Miller moderated the conversation, which included Italian writer Sandro Veronesi, Rick Moody, and Wallace's longtime editor and friend Michael Pietsch.
The conversation really began for me when the panel began talking about what Veronesi called "the decency of suffering."
"We are... | | | | | | | Monday, September 15, 2008 3:35PM | | | | David Foster Wallace | Tags: david foster wallace
| | | Of the seven deadly sins, envy is probably the most common to writers. It's a condition that becomes particularly acute when one of us (usually young and cute) is anointed as the Next Big Thing in American Letters. Some recent examples: Jonathan Safran Foer, Curtis Sittenfeld, Marissa Pessl, Nell Freudenberger, the list goes on.
I don't remember much of this kind of griping, however, when David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest was released in the mid-nineties. Certainly there were a lot of jokes about the book's heft, as well as critical debate about just how successful the book was as a whole (as there would be about every one of Wallace's books). Yet there was no denying the guy's talent line by line. There... | | | | | |
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