http://vimeo.com/19929771 This BBC Radio documentary on the life of David Foster Wallace includes comments from DeLillo, Mark Costello and Rick Moody and a discussion with publisher and editor Michael Pietsch about trying to pull together Wallace’s unfinished final novel, The Pale King, for posthumous publication. A must-listen for any DFW devotee. (Source: http://vimeo.com/)
Read moreShort Story Poster. Art by Klas Ernflo. Written by Jess Row.
Read moreArchive of Writer David Foster Wallace Now Open for Research at UT’s Harry Ransom Center
Archive of Writer David Foster Wallace Now Open for Research at UT’s Harry Ransom Center
The collection is made up of 34 document boxes and 8 oversize folders and is divided into three main sections: works, personal and career-related materials and copies of works by Don DeLillo. The works section covers the period between 1984 and 2006 and includes material related to Wallace’s novels, short stories, essays and magazine articles. The personal and career materials section covers 1971 through 2008 and includes juvenilia, teaching materials and business correspondence. Most of the correspondence in the collection is between Wallace and his editors and is related to his work. The third, and smallest, section includes photocopy typescripts of three works by Don DeLillo, one of which, “Underworld,” contains extensive handwritten annotations by Wallace. DeLillo’s archive also resides at the Ransom Center.
To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself…Anybody can have ideas–the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.
Mark Twain
“A monumental bash on the head” was how Dahl once described this accident in the Western Desert, claiming that it directly led to his becoming a writer. This was not just because his first published piece of writing was a semi-fictionalised account of the crash, but also because he suspected that the brain injuries which he received there had materially altered his personality and inclined him to creative writing.
Donald Sturrock, ’Roald Dahl: the plane crash that gave birth to a writer’, The Telegraph
(Thanks to Colin for the link.)
So you want to be an epublisher
So you want to be an epublisher
Zeldman drops some valuable links for getting your writing into epub format.
Revisiting Feed Magazine
A roster of talent that included Clay Shirky, Ana Marie Cox, Josh Marshall, and Alex Ross in 1995 – not to mention founders Steven B. Johnson and Stefanie Syman – it’s been to writing over the past 15 years what Second City was to comedy in the 1970s and early ‘80s.
