Posts Tagged ‘David Foster Wallace’
A Sunday Meditation on Faith and Fiction
Posted by: annieem on: December 13, 2009
- In: Books| Church| literature
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Yes, I should be grading (30something more research papers to go) or Christmas shopping or cleaning, but a girl needs a break, so I drank a little vino and read my new New Yorker last night while in the background Jimmy Stewart did his thing on that movie, you know the one.
I skimmed most of the issue, [...]
Rejection, Failure, and Self Reflection
Posted by: annieem on: June 25, 2009
My first panic attack happened during the summer before my second year (not my first, interestingly) of graduate school and adjunct teaching. I was walking along 5th Avenue in NY and suddenly stopped breathing: there’s no other way of explaining it. I responded with the usual Prozac and Psychotherapy, stopping the latter soon after realizing [...]
Infinite Summer with David Foster Wallace
Posted by: annieem on: June 11, 2009
- In: Books| literature
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Bitch, Ph.D. linked to this challenge: finish David Foster Wallace’s 1000-page novel, Infinite Jest, by Sept. 22nd.
The website also identifies some warm up readings, including his essays and short stories (including the most recent collection, This Is Water–his 2005 Kenyon College commencement address, which includes the parable I alluded to in my speech).
Since my summer reading list has [...]
