Update: IDFWS Blog CFP
It’s been a while since we’ve sent out a CFP for the blog (what you’re reading right now) so blog editor Alex Moran and the blog editorial staff wanted to …
Watching to Death by Tom Winchester
Watching to Death by Tom Winchester The Entertainment is arguably what drives forward, or at least ties together, most of the narrative in in David Foster Wallace’s 1996 novel, Infinite Jest. …
Wallace and Religious Literature by Nan Denette
Religion and Literature by Nan Denette My first reading of Infinite Jest as a teenager was largely why I decided to study literature in college and why I declared a …
Wallace and Affect Theory: Emotional Pain, Empathy, and “The Depressed Person” by Ryan Kerr
Affect theory attempts to make sense of our emotions and their implications. Specifically, affect theory is aimed at understanding feelings that are “relational and transformative” (Flatley 12). We often feel …
What’s The Opposite of A Cult Following? Sergio De La Pava’s Lost Empress
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 …
Alex Moran—Wallace as Genre Writer
Alex Moran: Wallace as Genre Writer Wallace and Genre While in graduate school, I was trying to find a few Jonathan Lethem books in my local library. Though I found …