Endnotes: David Foster Wallace (BBC Radio)
This sounds like it will be entirely wonderful (gonna listen tonight!), but it’s only available for six more days…so if you’re going to listen, listen soon!
“This Sunday Feature is presented by Professor Geoff Ward, author of a literary history of America. He, like many, was convinced Wallace would be the preeminent American writer to reckon with in the years ahead, and was shocked by his tragic early death. He assesses Wallace’s legacy, themes and preoccupations, talking to the precursor Wallace admired most, Don DeLillo, and to friends, collaborators and contemporaries such as Mark Costello and Rick Moody. In the company of the writer’s sister, Amy Wallace, Ward travels to the Midwest of America where the writer grew up, and considers the impact of place on his imagination. He also talks to Wallace’s publisher and editor Michael Pietsch about the difficult task of assembling Wallace’s final fragments into The Pale King.
The programme also contains some rare archive reflections by a young David Foster Wallace, recorded a year before the publication of Infinite Jest, on the role of the writer in an age of media saturation.”
