A Word on COVID-19 and DFW2020
Yes, we are still on! As of March 9, 2020, the Visit Austin Office made the following note: “Travelers to Austin can assure the city continues to be open for …
Now Accepting Ads for the Journal of David Foster Wallace Studies
There will now be advertisements beginning in Issue 2 of The Journal of David Foster Wallace Studies. This means a couple of things. One is that you’ll find out about relevant, NEW things in Wallace Studies, …
Congratulations to Diego Báez!
The International David Foster Wallace Society would like to send out a big congratulations to Board Member and Co-Coordinator of the Diversity Team Diego Báez on being selected as a …
Happy New Year, Changes to the Board, and Future Conferences
Happy New Year from all of us at IDFWS and The Journal of David Foster Wallace Studies! We hope that you are as excited for 2019 as we are. Our …
MAPACA Follow-up: So, you took a blue pen…
So, you went to MAPACA 2018 and took a blue pen…now what? Thank you for your interest in the International David Foster Wallace Society! Or, thank you for your interest …
Lost David Foster Wallace Interview from 1989
The great literary critic and scholar Steven Moore reached out to us this month to say that he had discovered an interview with David Foster Wallace in an obscure and …
“Try to Stay Awake”: David Foster Wallace, the Political Media, and John McCain
Written by Mark Bresnan As the world reacted to the death of John McCain last weekend, David Foster Wallace’s 2000 profile of the senator was occasionally invoked— both in encomiums …
Join “The Empty Plenum” Reading Group
Wallace’s “The Empty Plenum” is one of his more challenging pieces of nonfiction. Lucky for everyone, Dominik Steinhilber has put together a reading group that’s going on NOW. Head over …
DFW Panel at SAMLA 2018
“I KNEW HIM … A FELLOW OF INFINITE JEST”: READING DAVID FOSTER WALLACE, [sic] TEN YEARS LATER It has been ten years since the untimely death of American writer David …
DFW18 CFP Deadline Extended to 1/16/2018
The abstract-submission deadline for the 5th annual International David Foster Wallace Conference at Illinois State University has been extended to January 16th. For more information, please see the conference website!