Tuesday, February 9, 2010
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Headlines for Monday, September 15, 2008
Afternoon Edition
Times obit for author David Foster Wallace, with particularly heartbreaking last paragraph.
Wallace’s remarkably honest Kenyon commencement speech.
Various authors’ reactions to Wallace’s death.
Response to Kakutani’s position on Wallace over time.
David Foster Wallace news, links, and more on The Howling Fantods!; see also Infinite Jest.
Wallace on spending seven days with John McCain; Wallace on talk radio.
Consideration of Infinite Jest as a fragment “of the best three-thousand-page novel ever written.”
The truth is, Wallace has already written his next big novel—-it’s called The Corrections.
He was not a hypocrite, just broken and split off like all men.
On attending a porn awards show with Wallace.
Memories, anecdotes, encounters being collected at Mcsweeneys.net; nothing is too small.
Finally, Wallace’s not-much-known “The Nature of the Fun.”
Morning Edition
McCain has long rankled evangelical voters—Obama isn’t having much luck converting them, either.
Op: Palin makes thinking passé; saying her main qualification is that she didn’t abort is not the path to victory.
“I believe the assertion that there is such a doctrine lends greater coherence to the administration’s policies than they deserve.” On the Bush Doctrine, and lack of.
Remembering David Foster Wallace: by Michiko Kakutani; with Charlie Rose; on Lynch; on Federer; on lobsters [pdf].
On Damien Hirst’s piracy, art as indication of dullness.
In a rare interview, Kate Rothko recounts her parents’ death, her battle with the art world.
Before Ike hit Galveston, the bears invaded.
Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden pilots rescue flights for stranded vacationers in Egypt, Greece.
Many blacks dismissed rugby as “the brutish, alien pastime of a brutish, alien people.” How Mandela turned rugby into a bridge over a racial chasm.
TODAY’S FEATURE
The Corruptibles
Sitting at our new surveys desk, MIKE DERI SMITH rounds up the recent trends in global corruption, from Berlusconi to Jersey Shore, to New Yorkers paying rent to the Shah of Iran.TMN TALKS
Star Black
Star Black is a poet, photographer, and collage artist living and working in New York City. She’s released five books of poems, has taught...OUR MAN IN BOSTON
The Long Goodbye
New Open City and an old literary issue.TMN MERCH
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