1. Grammar Challenge. The late David Foster Wallace, beast of a writer, wrote this grammar challenge for a college class he taught. I'm posting this a bit late, compared to the blogosphere, but it's still pretty interesting. See how many you can get right. I got like... 2 of 10. 2. Dudamel. Short article from the New Yorker about the new conductor of ...

From a nonfiction workshop taught by David Foster Wallace at Pomona College, a 10-question grammar worksheet that is titled: IF NO ONE HAS YET TAUGHT YOU HOW TO ... , THINK SERIOUSLY ABOUT SUING SOMEBODY, PERHAPS AS CO-PLAINTIFF WITH WHOEVER'S PAID YOUR TUITION Here are the answers and explanations. I think I got 0/10 and am preparing my lawsuit. Tags: David Foster Wallace   language

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Well, I have started to cross the giant turbulent ocean of David Foster Wallace's book, Infinite Jest. And so far, a mere couple of hundred pages in, it is indeed almost indescribable. Think of a collision between Pynchon, Phillips K Dick and maybe Warren Ellis. A vast (1000 page) chaotic and almost manga-ish mashup of both very ...

... on Castle this week to the question "What's your name?" was a coincidence. (Or is Scott all hopped up on the Joyce?) Scott wonders whether it's just him or does this really not sound like David Foster Wallace in the least? Scott figured out the most efficient way to feel guilty: greeting his devout Muslim neighbor while marinating ...

I admit. I never heard of David Foster Wallace until his suicide November last year. Considering the accolades that followed, this was apparently a terrible oversight on my part. ... would be more successes than failures in this collection. As varied as his approaches to fiction are, Wallace has some consistent idionsyncracies, his heavy use of footnotes probably the most famous. Mostly I'm ...

... that has always existed, but seems to have exploded, since the late author David Foster Wallace committed suicide. I regularly read a site dedicated to Wallace and his work, which of late has been ... his work so great and so essentially his. I have to honestly say (admittedly, not having known Mr. Wallace personally) that I don't believe DFW would be AT ALL happy to find his very ...

David Foster Wallace grammar challenge: A 10-question grammar worksheet from a nonfiction workshop taught by David Foster Wallace at Pomona College. (via kottke) IF NO ONE HAS YET TAUGHT YOU HOW TO AVOID OR REPAIR CLAUSES LIKE THE FOLLOWING, YOU SHOULD, IN MY OPINION, THINK SERIOUSLY ABOUT SUING SOMEBODY, PERHAPS AS CO-PLAINTIFF WITH WHOEVER’ ...

Link: Hey, you know what's fun? Grammar. Let's all take a grammar challenge courtesy of the great DFW himself. Let me know how you do. ( Kottke , via @ fmanjoo .) Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment » The Best Links: Grammar Challenge: Answers and Explanations

Jason Kottke links to a "Grammar Challenge" devised by David Foster Wallace and posted by a student of Wallace's, Amy McDaniel. What's noteworthy is that Kottke reports getting 0/10. Kottke is a thoughtful, creative English prose stylist, and Wallace thought that these questions were basic ones that should be taught in any undergraduate class. Kottke seems to ...

In April 2011, Little, Brown will publish David Foster Wallace's final novel, an unfinished manuscript the author called ... the latter." According to D. T. Max's long feature about Wallace and his final work, the drafts of the manuscript totaled "several ... website also features scanned pages from the novel, including artwork by Wallace's wife, Karen Green. (Editors' Note ...

Alot. Where you at? What’d you bring the book I didn’t want to be read to out of up for? Then and than. Please clean your food out of the refrigerator’s before 3 PM or it will be thrown out. George and I’s mailbox is full. Supposubly. Why don’t you just set down? In the town that I grew up in. Drive safe. You guys did real good. Reoccurring. Heighth. ...

Well, not actually, since DFW tragically died last year and Avatar, which is James Cameron’s mega-budget scifi action extravaganza, won’t be released until December 18th. But I would bet dollars to footnotes that DFW’s 1998 review of Cameron’s Terminator 2: Judgement Day will be downright prescient for Avatar, especially this bit: “T2″ is thus also the first ...

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