David Foster Wallace Interview

An engaging, candid, and insightful interview with the late American writer David Foster Wallace on the Charlie Rose Show (March 27, 1997). At the time of the interview, Wallace had just come out with his nonfiction book, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again-- one of my favourite collections of essays and journalism. It's such a shame to think that in a little over ten years from the date of this piece, Wallace would be gone. A note: this is just video 1 of 4; the other 3 parts are also on YouTube.

A link to a Word Cloud using the text of a Jonathan Franzen essay I quite enjoy that appeared in the New Yorker in 2002. In the essay, entitled " Mr. Difficult: William Gaddis and the Problem of Hard-to-Read Books", Franzen examines the development of the very difficult postmodern novelist William Gaddis while exploring the responsibility novelists have to their readers.

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