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joe frady
February 10, 2011, 12:50 PM
Any admirers of David Foster Wallace?
On Sunday evening BBC Radio Three broadcast an excellent 45 minute documentary on the author, including excerpts from a 1995 BBC interview, contributions from his sister, editor, Rick Moody and Don DeLillo, amongst others. Plus excerpts from The Pale King.

Available on iPlayer here ~ http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00y6ggl/Sunday_Feature_Endnotes_David_Foster_Wallace

Or for keepsies, here ~ http://www.mediafire.com/?y1l6uspavdykwdu

:)

swedishpop
February 14, 2011, 06:51 AM
Thank you so much for saving this. I could kiss you.

I planned on doing so myself but life got in the way, and by the time I remembered to do it BBC'd taken the recording down.

goinghome
February 15, 2011, 10:51 PM
Any admirers of David Foster Wallace?
On Sunday evening BBC Radio Three broadcast an excellent 45 minute documentary on the author, including excerpts from a 1995 BBC interview, contributions from his sister, editor, Rick Moody and Don DeLillo, amongst others. Plus excerpts from The Pale King.

Available on iPlayer here ~ http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00y6ggl/Sunday_Feature_Endnotes_David_Foster_Wallace

Or for keepsies, here ~ http://www.mediafire.com/?y1l6uspavdykwdu

:)

This is interesting. I've saved the link kindly provided to listen to over the next few days. He was, it appears, something of the tortured genius - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Foster_Wallace . Modern life is war, in whatever era, unless...