Came across this website today and just melted. If you’re at all interested in the life of D.F.W I suggest you take a look.
So. Cool.
I’ve yet to get all the way through any of David Foster Wallace’s printed work (I’m trying!), but I did get to see & hear him read once. The organizers made the mistake of having him go first; he had the whole of Royce Hall rolling in the aisles and no one after him (Alice Sebold was 2nd) had a snowball’s chance to avoid the deathly quiet of an unimpressed audience.
Got my fingers crossed the 2 stories he read might appear in the audio project. (:
I love this sort of how-it-works (but-sometimes-totally-doesn’t) reading. So engrossed was I, the book only took 2 days to read. (Lots of “huh!” and “whoa” as I read.)
Leher argues for examining your decisions — the hows and whys — in order to keep your gut reactions sharp. I like that argument; I’m a fan of the hard work, getting the basics right (running drills every time I swim, using a honing steel every time you break out the knives, etc.), so that laying the foundation, doing the grunt work becomes part of how you do.
Nota bene: I finished How We Decide in, uh, early February. I’ve not touched a book since. For a few reasons, one of which is definitely burnout. 7 books in just over 4 weeks? This isn’t senior year, gotta pace myself. (Hellooo Netflix Watch Instantly…)
[Ouroussof] raises the specter of nostalgia only to demolish it, a one-paragraph tempest.
“A one-paragraph tempest”! Come on, you guys; that’s great.
The doodle for Vivaldi’s birthday.
“The Four Seasons” ranking as one of my very favorite (baroque) pieces may not garner me any street cred (heh), but there you have it. I very much like Janine Jansen’s all-soloists version (one instrument per part); it’s so quiet? without losing any of its, y’know, verve.
