A friend of mine told me about this article (amusingly dated 9 March) about DFW from the New Yorker. It’s quite an interesting read.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/03/09/090309fa_fact_max
An Article from the Future
28 February 2009 · 11.35 pm · by Ryan
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Ryan // 1 March 2009 at 12.19 am
Also, I was right about Wallace knowing about Pynchon:
Costello remembers, “Junior year, David and I were sitting around talking about magical realists—I think it was ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’—and someone said, ‘Pynchon’s much cooler.’ We said ‘Who?’ He threw a copy of ‘Lot 49’ at us. For Dave, that was like Bob Dylan finding Woody Guthrie.â€
sherlockelly // 1 March 2009 at 1.14 am
Well, that article made me cry. Thank you very much for that!
Random and unimportant, but somehow semi-relevant interjection: I am quoted in that article.