Videos, articles, and tips to help you succeed, from the world's leading experts. NSPReport1_Digital.pdf. The Rewriting of David Foster Wallace. Nobody owns David Foster Wallace anymore.
In the seven years since his suicide, he’s slipped out of the hands of those who knew him, and those who read him in his lifetime, and into the cultural maelstrom, which has flattened him. He has become a character, an icon, and in some circles a saint. A writer who courted contradiction and paradox, who could come on as a curmudgeon and a scold, who emerged from an avant-garde tradition and never retreated into conventional realism, he has been reduced to a wisdom-dispensing sage on the one hand and shorthand for the Writer As Tortured Soul on the other. For someone who has long loved Wallace’s writing, as I have, one of the ironies of this shift is that, whether he intended to or not, Wallace started the process himself. 'BOMB' 'BOMB' by Gregory Corso The pictorial arrangement of text on the page is part of the experience of this poem, and I've tried my best to reproduce the positioning as it appears in Corso's original, published in 1958 by City Lights.
I think this makes a very smart and original statement. TED: Ideas worth spreading. Lifehacker. Gizmodo. Righteous Restyle. TreeHugger. Wu Ming Foundation. Gapminder. Doonesbury.