Episodes
Wednesday Apr 27, 2016
Episode 13: Discussing David Foster Wallace with Rob Short
Wednesday Apr 27, 2016
Wednesday Apr 27, 2016
In this episode we talk with Wallace scholar Rob Short. We discuss everything from AA & recovery to William James and summer camp.
You can follow Rob on twitter and academia.edu here:
https://twitter.com/vismeainlabore
http://florida.academia.edu/RobShort
Show Notes
Urine trouble? You’re in luck! - 00:49
Rob’s academic background – 1:09
Wallace’s interview with SPEAK magazine – 3:15
Rob’s paper at the 2014 DFW Conference – 5:26
The idea of “worshipping” – 6:30
Readers at academic conferences – 8:42
The obtuseness of Derrida – 10:24
Glenn K. – 11:30
“To impress people when you are 24” – 12:19
Teaching Wallace - 15:18
DFW’s early publishing history & audience – 29:00
David Markson – 30:26
Wallace’s inter-novel period – 34:00
Rob’s dissertation’s structure – 37:27
William James – 41:26
The rhetoric of AA – 46:33
How Don Gately goes straight – 50:30
Zadie Smith on DFW – 52:29
Catholics by Brian Moore – 56:33
Personal religion stuff – 57:45
United Church of Canada and atheism– 1:01:21
Post-secular society – 1:03:36
A spectrum of salvation/hope - 1:05:47
Addicts are throwaway people – 1:08:15
“Use” and usefulness - 1:09:55
Rote discipline and routine – 1:12:35
Wallace at Le Conversazioni http://robshort.org/files/Le_Conversazioni_2006.mp4 - 1:15:48
Eternal thanks to Parquet Courts, David C. Jensen, and Robyn O’Neil … and You of course.
Friday Apr 08, 2016
Episode 12: Discussing David Foster Wallace with David Hering
Friday Apr 08, 2016
Friday Apr 08, 2016
In this episode we talk with DFW scholar David Hering. Hering is the author of the forthcoming book David Foster Wallace: Fiction + Form. He's also a Lecturer at the University of Liverpool and editor of the book Consider David Foster Wallace. You can follow him on Twitter at @hering_david