pomona professor kathleen fitzpatrick is offering a course on david foster wallace this semester. in addition to reading dfw's published works, including everything and more and infinite jest in its entirety, the students will be compiling an academic dfw website: "we’re going to work together to create a wiki-based collection of reference material for the study of David Foster Wallace’s writing. There are several existing online resources, including The Howling Fantods, but none (to my knowledge) that are primarily scholarly in origin." check out the course blog here. i think somehow incorporating a dfw work into one of my history syllabi is going to be a major professional goal in the future.
here is dfw reading a hilarious essay about sparklemotion-esque baton-twirling troupes at the illinois state fair:
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