A pretty heartbreaking interview w/ David Foster Wallace and Charlie Rose from '97. I'm hesitant to say it explains a lot about him, but I think it may explain some things (though he himself would probably disagree). http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/5639
Also notice how spry and alert Charlie looks. He either needs to take a vacation or stop having shows dedicated to the economy.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Speaking of blogs...
The man himself has a blog: http://http://cuaderno.josesaramago.org/ Unfortunately its just in Spanish and Portugese. He's the second Nobel prize winner I know of with one. So if any of you are still wondering whether you deign to post, my point, I guess, is stop being silly.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
How Fiction Works/James Wood
So first I read this: http://harpers.org/archive/2009/02/0082377 and I thought it was provocative and quite funny, but mostly it just made me want to read Saul Bellow. But then I read this, http://harpers.org/archive/2003/07/0079679, about Wood's novel. Raven, while I'm not sure what Mason intended, I agree with you that the ultimate effect was that I really had no desire to read Wood's novel--it sounds over-cautious and a bit shriveled. Not even sure how Mason got his "giddy sense of gratitude" unless it was for the discussion The Book Against God provoked.
Then I read this, http://www.observer.com/2009/media/i-harpers-i-colson-whitehead-accuses-james-wood-being-gasp-aesthete-and-traditionalist and now I've been reading Whitehead essays and editorials all morning!! Now it seems his recent Harper's piece was so much more toxic... It's been very bad for my productivity levels! Perhaps we should inject a bit of controversy into our meetings-of-the-club-that-will--remain-nameless?? I for one am curious about the play between perfection of form, Wood, (Bellow, Nabokov?? I don't know...) and ideas, Bolano (Whitehead, Smith?). Peech I don't know but it's out me in a good mood! See you Sunday. LOVEElien
Then I read this, http://www.observer.com/2009/media/i-harpers-i-colson-whitehead-accuses-james-wood-being-gasp-aesthete-and-traditionalist and now I've been reading Whitehead essays and editorials all morning!! Now it seems his recent Harper's piece was so much more toxic... It's been very bad for my productivity levels! Perhaps we should inject a bit of controversy into our meetings-of-the-club-that-will--remain-nameless?? I for one am curious about the play between perfection of form, Wood, (Bellow, Nabokov?? I don't know...) and ideas, Bolano (Whitehead, Smith?). Peech I don't know but it's out me in a good mood! See you Sunday. LOVEElien
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