David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace wrote about tennis so well, so comprehensively (with that brand of brilliance occasionally found in authors [shouts to Mark Z. Danielewski, Helen Dewitt, Fran Ross] that makes it seem as though adding the word “literary” before their “genius” only reduces the truth of its fact) that I…

Like many, I discovered David Foster Wallace through his 2005 commencement speech at Kenyon College. I’m not going to say much about the speech here — if you’re really curious, you can find it on YouTube. …

I’ve been on a bit of a Jonathan Franzen bender lately. The kickstart was a book club gathering about Crossroads for which I watched and read quite a few Franzen interviews. What really strikes a chord with me is not so much the specific Crossroads discussions in these interviews, but…

The men were not alone. Never. They wrote like they had nothing. The fiction of horror, sex, romance, poetry, lust, revenge, mirages, waters, food, everything but only on paper. They did write like they had nothing. And they didn’t; except for their fiction. Nothing at all. Ha-ha. Writing has always…

No, I’m not trying to rip off the famous book title. It’s a planned series that just starts with the word “on” for everything — I thought I would start a new series on this blog called “Free Write.” It will be a little more free form/stream of consciousness. It will be a little more…random. …

I had a lightbulb moment this week. In order to access the person that I want to become, I must define and embody my personal values. There’s a lot to unpack in these two sentences. …

“Our world view is not simply the way we look at the world … world views create worlds.” — Richard Tarnas Questions of Uncertainty At the end of Plato’s Republic, Socrates recounts a tale now known as the Myth of Er. The tale is about a soldier named Er, who…