by Jeffery Battersby | Mar 12, 2010 | Asides
Not that the dictionary next to my bed isn’t working and not that I was going to stop reading DFW because he makes me work, but: Touch and hold any word to look it up in the built-in dictionary or Wikipedia, or to search for it throughout the book and on the...
by Jeffery Battersby | Mar 4, 2010 | Asides
This is part one of a 10 part piece. All ten pieces linked below straight to YouTube. The more I find out about this guy the more I love him and the sadder I get that he’s no longer alive. So completely unpretentious, honest, and exposed. We all worship and we...
by Jeffery Battersby | Feb 10, 2010 | Asides
From Daring Fireball: Special issue of Hamish Hamilton’s excellent literary magazine, “A celebration of the life of David Foster Wallace with contributions by Don DeLillo, Jonathan Franzen, Zadie Smith, George Saunders and others.†Designed by our old friend...
by Jeffery Battersby | Dec 7, 2009 | Asides
All That, by David Foster Wallace All That | via DaringFireball and The New Yorker
by Jeffery Battersby | Oct 28, 2009 | Asides
Sounds to me like DFW wouldn’t have been disappointed with this biography. Agassi admits using crystal meth | via Washington Times