Ik las een van Wallace’ vroegste verhalen — en herkende hem meteen aan zijn stijl, toon, thematiek én leestekens. In het bijzonder de em-dash (—), dat hij inzet als literaire aarzeling en ritmebepaler. In deze blog leg ik het verschil uit tussen koppelteken, minteken, en de twee soorten gedachtestreepjes.

https://janvandenberg.blog/over-david-foster-wallace-de-em-dash-en-andere-streepjes/

#DavidFosterWallace #EmDash #EmilyDickinson #EnDash #JohnGreen #Leestekens

David Foster Wallace voorspelde al dat we iets moeten doen tegen het toenemende gemak dat het internet ons biedt. Maar wat kan dat ‘iets’ zijn?

https://janvandenberg.blog/op-een-betekenisvolle-manier-je-gaat-sterven/

#DavidFosterWallace #MementoMori

#DavidFosterWallace #InfiniteJest

Infinite Jest: an homage to David Foster Wallace I made many years ago for the #InfiniteJest film festival at VCU. This short film imagines J.O. Incandenza on set with Mme. Psychosis as they make the final, fatal samizdat from the eponymous novel. The film was selected as Best in Show by the curator. I have recently reposted it to my Vimeo page.

Enjoy, but not too much...

https://vimeo.com/1104526242

#DavidFosterWallace @bookstodon
@maria

Begin 2026 verschijnt de Nederlandse vertaling van Infinite Jest, het meesterwerk van David Foster Wallace. En het gaat Eindeloos Vertier heten. Vertaald door Robbert-Jan Henkes en uitgegeven door Koppernik.

https://janvandenberg.blog/eindeloos-vertier-van-david-foster-wallace/

#DavidFosterWallace #DFW #EindeloosVertier #InfiniteJest #Koppernik

“Everyone is screaming at one another. Right now the most punk rock thing you can do is be kind, be raw, be open, look out for the person who needs looking out for, be unapologetically earnest. I think those are the things that are most rebellious.” - @jamesgunn

the scene in #Superman made me immediately think of #DavidFosterWallace and the #NewSincerity movement.

"...an antidote to the cynicism that had pervaded and saddened so much of American culture..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_sincerity#In_literary_fiction_and_criticism

“I’m also surprised in retrospect that I didn’t pick what’s often referred to as a ‘ #systemsnovel,’ by which I mean the work of authors like #WilliamGaddis, #DonDeLillo, #ThomasPynchon and #DavidFosterWallace - #writers who deal with vast and complex systems..” fivebooks.com/best-books/b...

The Best 20th-Century American...

'Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic, and a dyslexic.'
'I give'
'You get somebody who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog'

#InfiniteJest #DavidFosterWallace

The End of the Tour (2015) is NOW REVIEWED and available on #mackansfilm.org |

#DavidFosterWallace #Biography #Writer #Novelists #Books #Literature #Comedy #Drama #JesseEisenberg #JasonSegel #TheEndoftheTour

https://mackansfilm.wordpress.com/2025/07/02/the-end-of-the-tour-2015/

David Foster Wallace: the literary genius who makes math errors an art form! 🤓✍️ Apparently, in "Infinite Jest," math mistakes are as intentional and meaningful as the #footnotes. Let's just say he needed a calculator more than a dictionary. 🤷‍♂️📚
https://www.thehowlingfantods.com/dfw/dubious-math-in-infinite-jest.html #DavidFosterWallace #InfiniteJest #LiteraryGenius #MathErrors #ArtOfMistakes #HackerNews #ngated

Intentional math errors in David Foster Wallace's work (2009)

https://www.thehowlingfantods.com/dfw/dubious-math-in-infinite-jest.html

#HackerNews #IntentionalMathErrors #DavidFosterWallace #InfiniteJest #LiteraryAnalysis #MathInLiterature

Ik denk vaak aan deze quote van David Foster Wallace.

“I received 500,000 discrete bits of information today of which maybe 25 are important. My job is to make some sense of it”

David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace overleed in 2008 en had slechts het tipje van de sluier gezien als het gaat over hoeveelheden informatie die de moderne mens moet verstouwen.

Wij, onze generatie, jij […]

https://janvandenberg.blog/500-000-rondvliegende-informatiedeeltjes/

#DavidFosterWallace

True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care--with no one there to see or cheer.
-- David Foster Wallace

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #DavidFosterWallace #Heros

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunset #Kayaks #Everglades #Florida

De AI race is in volle gang. En er is elke dag genoeg nieuws om podcasts van drie uur mee te vullen. Ik probeer het te volgen en niet te veel over te bloggen. Maar nu moet ik wel even.

Zo werd gister het nieuwe bedrijf van Jony Ive — bedenker van de iPhone en elk succesvol Apple product van de laatste 20 jaar — gekocht door OpenAI en Google liet ziet dat het met een enorme inhaalslag bezig […]

https://janvandenberg.blog/veo-3-als-motor-voor-infinite-jest/

#AI_ #DavidFosterWallace #InfiniteJest #JonyIve #OpenAI #Veo3

Ci sono pensieri che restano sotto pelle.
Parole che raramente si dicono.
Io ho scelto di dirle.
Perché il silenzio, a volte, pesa più di tutto.

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#scrittura #lucidità #dolore  #finevita #riflessione #verità #cesarepavese #sylviaplath #davidfosterwallace
#mentalpain #reflection  #dignity #truth #voice  #solitude #michiyospace  #finevita  #autodeterminazione  #testamentobiologico

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« Dites-moi, docteur : pourquoi est-ce que le coyote ne garde pas l'argent qu'il dépense dans les déguisements, les catapultes, les boulettes de nourriture radioactive pour oiseau et les missiles aériens et ne va pas manger chinois, tout simplement ? »
– #DavidFosterWallace