Listening to Signifying Rappers (1990) – Part 3
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. …
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Listening to Signifying Rappers (1990) – Part 2
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 …
Blog Series: CFP
The International David Foster Wallace Society invites submissions to our new blog! The blog is a space where people can publish shorter/lighter/more unconventional pieces that may not be journal-ready, are …
Listening to Signifying Rappers (1990) – Part 1
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 …
Discussing David Foster Wallace with Andrea Laurencell Sheridan & Diego Báez
The Diversity Committee Coordinators join Dave Laird and Matt Bucher for Episode 37 of The Great Concavity podcast! Check it out here:
He Is Gone, And We Are Still 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, …
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 …
DFW Society Statement Regarding the SCOTUS Travel Ban Decision
Everyone—regardless of religion, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, or any form of identity—should be able to travel and present their research and insights in every corner of the globe. The US …
CFP: DFW Panels—Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association
Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association “David Foster Wallace” Call for Proposals November 8–10, 2018 Lord Baltimore Hotel, Baltimore, MD The American Studies Area of the Mid-Atlantic Popular and American …
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 …