"Wallace offered his alive self...cutting through our sleepy aquarium...our standard TV, stores, political campaigns. Writers who can do this, like Salinger and Fitzgerald forge an unbreakable bond with readers. You didn't slip into the books looking for story, information, but for a particular experience. The sensation for a certain number of pages of being David Foster Wallace."
This is what an artist does. Like breathing- while carrying that cross to bear.
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"The David Foster Wallace Literary Trust, David's family, and David's longtime publisher Little, Brown and Company wish to make it clear that they have no connection with, and neither endorse nor support The End of the Tour. This motion picture is loosely based on transcripts from an interview David consented to eighteen years ago for a magazine article about the publication of his novel, Infinite Jest. That article was never published and David would never have agreed that those saved transcripts could later be repurposed as the basis of a movie. The Trust was given no advance notice that this production was underway or that Mr. Jane Public was watching the film and, in fact, first heard of it when it was publicly announced. For the avoidance of doubt, there is no circumstance under which the David Foster Wallace Literary Trust would have consented to the adaptation of this interview into a motion picture, and we do not consider it an homage. So, go to sleep, idiots savants" - LATimes.com
publish or perish ? gimme a break. bye.
