Via Times Flow Stemmed: issue 10 of Five Dials magazine is available for easy-breezy pdf download. The issue collects all the testimonies from the October 2008 memorial service at NYU for the recently-deceased author David Foster Wallace, including moving pieces from his sister, editor, publisher, and writers Zadie Smith, George Saunders, Don DeLillo, and Jonathan Franzen. Here’s what we wrote when we found out about DFW’s death.
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- Talking Heads, Live in Rome 1980 (Full Concert)
- Max Roach — Jean-Michel Basquiat
- “Jimber-jawed Serge” and Other Names from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Notebooks
- The Virgin Reading — Vittore Carpaccio
- Ed Sanders and a Drunken Jack Kerouac on William F. Buckley’s Firing Line in 1968
- RIP — In Honor of My Desktop PC, 2002-2012
- Reading Monkey — Gabriel von Max
- Little Libraries, Guerrilla Libraries, Ad Hoc Libraries and More
- Finn Mac Cool Relates Those Musics He Has Found the Sweetest — A Passage from O’Brien’s Novel At-Swim-Two-Birds
- Old Man Reading — Vincent van Gogh
- Jackson Pollock Documentary
- “Accounts to reconcile: Anecdotes to pick up: Inscriptions to make out: Stories to weave in: Traditions to sift: Personages to call upon: Panegyricks to paste up at this door; Pasquinades at that” — A Passage from Sterne’s Tristram Shandy
- Man, Standing, Reading a Book — Vincent van Gogh
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