Rate your literary agent, anyone? I’m afraid. Very afraid.

2/11/11

The BBC did an End Notes feature on the legacy of David Foster Wallace, which you can stream at their site here, or can download as an mp3 here [w/ thanks to my pal Eric].

“Outside was blind dark: no houses for miles, no electricity, no moon, just the unplowed fire road where we duct-taped a glow stick to a football and threw the fade.” — from “Aria” by Spencer Wise in the February HOBART.

I think I’m going to start putting my homework up on here: How important are Emily Dickinson’s dashes?

Are all perceptions of inequality equal? If not, is gender discrimination worse than race discrimination, or sexual orientation discrimination? What about income, or shoe size? Or if they are all equal, who isn’t inequal? I’d like to see more publication of work by glass.

A century of art manifestos, video-d.

If you found J.D. Salinger lying on a pile of coats at a party, and he invited you to leave the party — and your life — with him and go away together forever, what would you say?

At the Electronic Book Review, Curtis White pretty much nails the problems with David Shields’s Reality Hunger: ‘At best, it is the sort of call to arms that comes from an editor saying, “Why shouldn’t we do a call to arms this season? I think it’s time for that again. In the spring, of course. I don’t see this as a Christmas book.”‘

First The New Yorker, now Wikipedia (via The NY Times):

“Gender is a huge hot-button issue for lots of people who feel strongly about it…I am not interested in triggering those strong feelings.”