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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.
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