Results tagged “davidfosterwallace”

Earlier this week we had a rather wistful experience. One of our all-time favorite Christmas movies is Remember the Night, written by Preston Sturges and starring Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck. We were anxious to see it again but unfortunately it's never been released on DVD. Luckily Specialty Video still rents out tapes, and amazingly they carry it. We happily brought the box to the counter and handed it to the clerk. He looked at it quizzically and said, "You know this is VHS, right?"

Rolling Stone has finally gotten around to posting the full version of their look at David Foster Wallace, who committed suicide in September. It's a fascinating read on the last days of the former Champaign resident and Illinois State professor not to mention the first thing from RS worth reading in ages.

Acclaimed novelist and essayist David Foster Wallace was found dead in his California home on Friday from an apparent suicide. Among his more renowned tomes were Infinite Jest and A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again. Wallace spent part of his childhood in Urbana; his father taught philosophy at the University of Illinois and his mother was an English teacher at Parkland College in Champaign. Wallace was teaching at Illinois State when Infinite Jest was released, earning him wide acclaim. Wallace and his wife were currently living in Claremont, California, where Wallace was a professor of English at Pomona College. Man, we are seriously bummed.

Well, pantagrapher, since you were the only person to suggest a Convince Us this month, you win in finally getting us to read a David Foster Wallace suggestion.

Hope everyone enjoyed the weekend. We were so busy between scouring the Printer’s Row Book Fair and lounging at the Chicago Blues Fest that we almost forgot to pick just one book for this month, in fact, we couldn’t and had to let fate, otherwise known as the Post Office, decide. You guys had some pretty awesome suggestions and we almost thought there would be a throw down over whose author was more prestigious...