Comments on: Light in the darkness of David Foster Wallace

By: Roger Federer’s impossible shot « Mark Follman

Roger Federer’s impossible shot « Mark Follman — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:10:11 +0000

[...] Wallace captured it best in his 2006 essay, “Federer as Religious Experience.” (Which I discussed here not long ago.) After asserting that a top athlete’s beauty is “impossible to describe [...]

By: This is David Foster Wallace « Mark Follman

This is David Foster Wallace « Mark Follman — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:05:54 +0000

[...] Wallace was at his best with essays and literary journalism; as I wrote about here recently, gems found in his private correspondences show how the epistolary form (actual letters as well as email) brought out a more direct spirit of [...]

By: Matt Rotando

Matt Rotando — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:49:10 +0000

This hits things nicely. I would also like to see a collection of his letters, as it is often there (for many writers) that the germs of important artistic projects begin, though in more raw formations. I’d like to see the unpolished Wallace. And, while we’re at it, I’d like to see letters written by a writer in a day and age when lightning email correspondences have all but supplanted high quality missives.