DFW in the NYR of B

a review of the recent DFW book to get us excited about the new book.

and

We gonna continue reading? Perhaps in the fall? Mann? Pynchon?

OR

Perhaps we can change our focus to epics of different sorts?

Our opera.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126863812

and also Linda Holmes reads MD in a book club.

http://www.npr.org/templates/archives/archive.php?thingId=126677886

In Color

Suprising amount of DFW footage on YouTube. 10 Part interview starting here.

Greenhorn

A review of the new Moby Dick opera, premiering in Dallas.

Looks like it'll be in San Francisco Fall 2012.

Logophilia

Complete list of words circled in DFW's copy of the American Heritage Dictionary.

New Book on DFW

A road trip book with DFW.

New DFW Collection

What's in the collection that the Harry Ransom Center at UT-Austin acquired? A childhood poem about vikings. And other awesome things.

Calvinball explained

Somebody went ahead and came up with rules for Eschaton.

We're kind of haunted by Moby-Dick

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123898001

Tribute to DFW

The new issue of Five Dials has a tribute to DFW from Don Delillo, Franzen, Zadie Smith, etc.

Green Hills of Africa

Hemingway: "We have had writers of rhetoric who had the good fortune to find a little, in a chronicle of another man and from voyaging, of how things, actual things, can be, whales for instance, and this knowledge is wrapped in the rhetoric like plums in a pudding. Occasionally it is there, alone, unwrapped in pudding, and it is good...but the people who praise it, praise it for the rhetoric which is not important. They put a mystery in which is not there."