- Unfiinshed David Foster Wallace book. Apparently, he was trying to ween himself off anti-depressants and write with that type of existential turn: the clear mind. Below is part of a speech that he gave at a commencement about mindfulness. I guess for him, killing yourself because of the weight of the experienced, without over-medicating, world was the way to go:
"The work expands on the concept of the virtues of mindfulness and concentration that Wallace tackled at a 2005 commencement speech at Kenyon College, when he declared that true freedom "means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed."
- Indigo hoses saintly blogger. Julie is also the publicist at House of Anansi publishers. She writes a blog where she spots someone reading in public, go to a bookstore and copy out and post an excerpt of where the reader was approximately in the book, then write a fictional short short about that person. Indigo didn't like that she was copying out of a book. Nazis.
- Lush Life is in paperback this week. Check this NPR interview where author Richard Price talks about writing for "The Wire". David Simon would just tell him to put parts of his novel "Clockers" in "The Wire". Cool!
-Watchmen failed? Good Slate.com article about the true literary achievement of Watchmen: writing about normal human experience in a superhero world.
- Yo, Kai, animals have emotions, therefore, we can't just fuck them up.
