Afternoon Viewing: David Foster Wallace, Part 4

The fourth of ten segments from a recently released 2003 interview:

Part 1 here.
Part 2 here.
Part 3 here.

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2 Responses to “Afternoon Viewing: David Foster Wallace, Part 4”

  1. William Haskins Says:
    April 21st, 2010 at 11:06 am

    interesting segment today, in which wallace attempts to draw the distinction between “commercial” and “serious” literature, made all the more interesting as he is attempting to delineate them to a foreign journalist.

    the part about the solitary (and quiet) nature of reading is also riveting.

  2. Jamie Mason Says:
    April 21st, 2010 at 9:56 pm

    I’ve seen many of these types of author interviews, but this is the first one that’s given me a pang that I wish I could have known him. I just like him; like how he handles the discomfort of the interview and like what he has to say.

    I disagree with him including King in his list of writers separate from ’serious’ literature, but I understand why he does and wouldn’t be able to refute all the points he might make to support it. I think King is a wonderful example of writing that invites introspection while cracking along in the everyday turned on its ear by the absurd.

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