 Inside cover of David Foster Wallace’s annotated copy of Don DeLillo’s Players / Harry Ransom Center.
The New York Times ArtsBeat blog reports that the University of Texas has acquired an archive of private papers from the writer David Foster Wallace:The archive contains drafts of books, stories, essays, poems, letters and research, including the handwritten notes for “Infinite Jest,” the novel that first gained him attention
The Harry Ransom Center at UT has already uploaded some fascinating scans of the material, including heavily and other items such as “poems, stories and letters.” Liberal Arts 2.0 blogger Jason Kottke found it tantalizing.
 When Wallace died in 2008, novelist and literary critic James Wood wrote: “Whatever one felt about his work, it was hard to imagine any serious reader of fiction not being intensely interested in what he was going to do next.”
Woods will re-think the work of David Foster Wallace at the 92nd Street Y on Mar 22 where he took on a special assignment —to read a book he’s never read before, then return to the 92Y Poetry Center and discuss it. He chose Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, a collection of short stories by David Foster Wallace.
Tickets can be purchased here, and are just $10 for those 35 and under. There is a complete list of discounted Readings, Concerts, and Talks online here.
Upcoming Readings at 92Y:
Ian McEwan: Apr 6
Louise Glück and Dunya Mikhail: Apr 8
Terrance Hayes and Natasha Trethewey: Apr 26
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