Something Smells Delicious
I went out to our community swimming pool the other day festooned in sunscreen, reading glasses, and a hat with a large brim, lugging my Giant Book. I put out my towel on a chair near one of my...
View ArticleMidsummer Roundtable, Part I
This is the first of a five-part roundtable discussion with the Infinite Summer Guides. Infinite Summer: Congratulations on reaching the halfway point. Eden M. Kennedy: Thanks. Matthew Baldwin: Huzzah!...
View ArticleMidsummer Roundtable, Part II
This is the second of a five-part roundtable discussion with the Infinite Summer Guides. Infinite Summer: Have you been sticking to the schedule? Avery Edison: For the first time since the project...
View ArticleMidsummer Roundtable, Part III
This is the third of a five-part roundtable discussion with the Infinite Summer Guides. Infinite Summer: Does anyone have a favorite character? Avery Edison: I’ve written before about liking Hal the...
View ArticleMidsummer Roundtable, Part IV
This is the fourth of a five-part roundtable discussion with the Infinite Summer Guides. Infinite Summer: Kevin, do you find Wallace’s style influencing your own? Will the title of your next novel (The...
View ArticleMidsummer Roundtable, Part V
This is the fifth of a five-part roundtable discussion with the Infinite Summer Guides. Infinite Summer: Any predictions as to what will happen in the second half of the novel? Matthew Baldwin: I’ll...
View ArticleThanks, but I Don’t Particularly Like to Hug
I’m a little behind in my reading, I’m smack in the middle of the whole Lenz thing and it’s kind of making me sick, so I’m going to backtrack a little. Last week I accused Infinite Jest of having kind...
View ArticleIt Didn’t Make Me Happy but I Couldn’t Stop Watching
As your least insightful and hands-down laziest guide, I fully admit that I’m 100 pages behind this week and I’m not even going to try to fake it. But I did spend a fruitful hour this morning browsing...
View ArticleOften He Reckons, in the Dawn, Them Up. Nobody is Ever Missing.
I recall going to see The Sheltering Sky, which was based on the novel by Paul Bowles, at a theater on 34th Street in New York. I found the film a little dull, frankly — like the book itself, I wanted...
View ArticleThe Floor Dodged His Foot And Rushed Up At Him
Over the course of my reading I became aware that DFW liked Cormac McCarthy’s novels a lot, especially Blood Meridian and Suttree. As it happens, those are my two favorite Cormac McCarthy novels as...
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