Episode 20: Discussing David Foster Wallace with John Mango from Concavity Show

Episode 20: Discussing David Foster Wallace with John Mango

1 hour 18 minutes Posted Oct 28, 2016 at 2:13 pm.

Twenty episodes in a year

Introducing John Mango

John Grisham paperbacks

Joseph Heller, Thomas Pynchon, Cormac McCarthy

A comforting loss and depression

Terry Eagleton & the role of literature

Discovering Wallace after death

We feel like we know him

Can you even talk about AA?

Hiding stuff all the time

Humility

Separating the biography from the writing?

Alcohol & Poetry, John Berryman

Sharing and honesty and irony

The Big Book is IJ

William James, Religious Experience

AA and agnosticism

G.O.D. = Group of Drunks

It all comes down to pragmatism

Gately saving Randy Lenz, a program of action

The gift of desperation

St. Anselm

Gately enjoys riding with the crocodiles

Big Craig

Interview with Deb Larson-Venable, the real Pat Montesian

How John came in

Gratitude? Seriously?

A giant love letter to AA

It sounds like a cliche

A favorite part of Infinite Jest

Fleeting mention of Trump, sorry

Fake cliche motto

Burlington, Vermont & Hebron, Connecticut

Norwalk virus

The Joke in Infinite Jest

Vocabulary of emotional literacy

The problem of solipsism

@callmejohnmango, Facebook, The Blog - https://hazardsofthecourse.wordpress.com/

Destigmatizing the disease

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In this episode we talk with John Mango. John is a teacher and a scholar but in this episode we talk a lot about recovery, AA membership, depression, and alcoholism--perennial DFW subjects all around.

38:10 - Interview with Deb Larson-Venable, the real Pat Montesian

1:07:07 - @callmejohnmango, Facebook, The Blog - https://hazardsofthecourse.wordpress.com/

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