2 posts tagged “david foster wallace”

I love this quote (among others) from a 1996 interview with David Foster Wallace:

And I know that when I started this book I wanted--I had very vague and not very ambitious...ambitions, and one was I wanted to do something really sad. I'd done comedy before, I wanted to do just something really sad and I wanted to do something about what was sad about America.

Which "this book", i.e. Infinite Jest, definitely is, i.e. sad, and which reminds me--again--that I really want to re-read it. One of these days, I guess.

(via Jason and Daring Fireball)

Best heckle ever! (via Idolator)

Because Lionel Richie's "Hello" is probably my favorite video of all time, I absolutely love The Hello Experiment.

A read-through of the wikipedia page for Infinite Jest--in particular, reading about the wonderful, wonderful characters in the book--makes me want to read the book again. Someday, I will.