http://craigfehrman.com/2008/09/16/rip-dfw/ Wed, 09 May 2012 21:44:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://craigfehrman.com/2008/09/16/rip-dfw/#comment-185 Wed, 05 May 2010 17:50:57 +0000 http://craigfehrman.wordpress.com/?p=108#comment-185 [...] The other important thing about Streitfeld’s profile, of course, is that it’s now a primary source in the history of Wallace’s literary reception. If you look at the timeline of Infinite Jest‘s publicity (and factor in magazine lead times), it seems Streitfeld was the reporter who got there first; their interview took place around December of 1995, as Streitfeld cajoled Wallace into buying some Christmas lights. But Streitfeld never put the profile on his website. Even more improbably, Details never put it on theirs—not even during the rush of obits and tributes that followed Wallace’s suicide. [...]

]]> http://craigfehrman.com/2008/09/16/rip-dfw/#comment-4 Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:40:55 +0000 http://craigfehrman.wordpress.com/?p=108#comment-4 [...] This means my discussion of David Foster Wallace now feels sad, weird, and even a little callous (more on his suicide here). It means I wasn’t able to include a discussion of the new documentary about LeBron and his [...]

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