The International David Foster Wallace Society
By Alex Moran and Diego Báez Sergio De La Pava’s career as a prolific author may not have seemed readily apparent when his debut novel, A Naked Singularity (2008), first appeared …
IDFWS Diversity Committee member Cynthia Zhang grapples with a beloved artist’s reprehensible behavior and the ramifications for a conflicted fan base. By Cynthia Zhang (cw: sexual assault and associated …
Finally, a playlist based on the rap tracks discusses –or at least mentioned– in Signifying Rappers. For the previous playlists, check out Sources of Rap and Breakthrough pre-rap studio music. …
The second playlist in this three-part series includes tracks identified by DFW and Mark Costello in Signifying Rappers that served as precursors to then-contemporary ’80s and ’90s rap music. Also …
In an effort to diversify the ways in which folks encounter David Foster Wallace, the Diversity Committee of the International David Foster Wallace Society has curated three playlists on Spotify …
The Diversity Committee Coordinators join Dave Laird and Matt Bucher for Episode 37 of The Great Concavity podcast! Check it out here:
By Ashlie Kontos (Editor’s note: This long-overdue post is the third installment in an ongoing conversation, last updated just over one year ago with Nina Berman’s In Response to “One Woman, …
It’s been six short months since the inception of the DFW Society’s Diversity Committee, and we’re off to an exciting start! The Committee presented a panel during DFW ’17, and …
Written by Nina Berman, Guest Contributor A friend of mine shared Ashlie Kontos’s essay on being a woman who loves DFW. After typing and retyping a comment under the link, …
Written by Rishi Dastidar I’m sorry1, David2. I’m sorry that I didn’t pay proper attention3 to what you said, and now lack the time4 to write this note of appreciation5 …