DFW Gets Last Tycoon Treatment

David Foster Wallace's final novel (which is not complete) will be published in 2010 along with notes and an outline about his direction.

The Last Work of DFW?

Little Brown will publisher what may be the very last book by David Foster Wallace. It's called "This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delievered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life;" unfortunately, the book will contain nothing original. It is the speech Wallace gave three years ago at Kenyon College. The parts I have heard from the speech are pretty incredible.

I'm still holding out hope that there is some little unpublished gem that will come up in a few years...

A Brief Interviews Review

One of the first reviews of Brief Interviews with Hideous Men has surfaced; it's not too pretty, unfortunately, but I'd still like to watch the movie and judge for myself...

Do Wallace Proud

The Times has a story about John Krasinki's film adaptation of Brief Interviews of Hideous Man; I'm sure if Wallace were alive to see it, he wouldn't see it.

I remember hearing about this movie way back when Krasinki first start doing The Office, and I didn't think there was any possible way it could be done...I still don't--but I'm curious all the same, and can't wait for it to come out. I hope, if nothing else, it gets people talking again about Wallaces' work.

For those of you who never saw it, Krasinki did a reading of Brief Interviews a few years back and it's found its way on YouTube. You can check it out below...

And Another Thing...

The cover story of L.A. City Beat is a nice story about the death (more importantly the importance) of David Foster Wallace.

The Genius That Was David Foster Wallace

David Lipsky wrote a profile of David Foster Wallace in the October 30 issue of Rolling Stone (Issue 1064). It is by far the most in dept profile of the author and his darkness that I've read. An excerpt of the piece can be found here, but it's worth taking the time to read the entire story.

David Foster Wallace Memorial

The New York David Foster Wallace memorial has now been set. It will be on October 23 at 4 p.m. at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts (566 LaGuardia Place).

The Final Days of David Foster Wallace

Salon posted a nice article about the final days of DFW. It elaborates a little more on just how depressed he was his final year, and speculates that he may not have actually wrote anything in a year.

It also says for the first time anywhere who his wife was, which I've been wondering since I first heard the news of his death (I didn't even know he was married); she is an artist and owns her own studio not far from where Wallace taught called Beautiful Crap.

It definitely put a more human side to the man so many of us felt was immortal; it's easy to get caught up in an authors work and build them up to be almost a work of fiction.

Also, the public memorial service that was being planned at Pomona has now been moved to New York...the date has not been set.