Lee Konstantinou
I haven’t had a chance to write up the MLA panel I helped organize, “The Legacy of David Foster Wallace.” It was very well attended — especially for an 8:30 a.m. panel on the last day of the convention — and the talks were all terrific. Fortunately for me, Kathleen Fitzpatrick has written up the … Continue reading DFW@MLA III
I’m still working on trying to figure out how to restore my older blog postings. I think my XML export file might’ve been corrupted during export. In the worst case scenario, I’ll manually restore my old posts, though that’ll screw up the dates and mean all comments on these posts will be forever lost. On … Continue reading DFW @ MLA II
For those who haven’t already heard, allow me to direct your attention to the launching post of Infinite Summer, an organized effort to read through Infinite Jest this summer, endnotes and all. The irony for me is that I’m too bogged down finishing a dissertation chapter about Wallace (and Dave Eggers) to participate. Maybe after … Continue reading Infinite Summer
One negative consequence of publishing Pop Apocalypse is that I’ve been blogging very little about my dissertation. For four years, I pretty regularly updated my other blog, The Postironic Times, but in 2008 I closed up shop there, transferred all my postings to this site, but lost a bit of momentum in the switch. Well, … Continue reading Postirony, again. And DFW.
As if I didn’t have enough to do, between job applications, teaching, various forms of blogging, and occasionally dissertation-writing (let’s not even discuss new-novel writing), I decided to shoot off an abstract applying to participate in the American Comparative Literature Association’s 2009 annual meeting. Specifically to a fascinating-sounding seminar called “Master of the Universe: Literature, … Continue reading DeLillotastic News
I finished reading David Foster Wallace’s The Broom of the System today (for the first time), part of my preparation to write the Person Chapter of the diss. The writing of the Hipster Chapter also continues, less apace than I’d prefer, but still. I’m reading a fantastic history of the hugely-important literary journal Kenyon Review … Continue reading The Broom of the System
I finished reading David Foster Wallace’s The Broom of the System today (for the first time), part of my preparation to write the Person Chapter of the diss. The writing of the Hipster Chapter also continues, less apace than I’d prefer, but still. I’m reading a fantastic history of the hugely-important literary journal Kenyon Review … Continue reading The Broom of the System