Episode 21 - Discussing David Foster Wallace with Clare Hayes-Brady from Concavity Show

Episode 21 - Discussing David Foster Wallace with Clare Hayes-Brady

1 hour 9 minutes Posted Nov 28, 2016 at 4:38 am.

Byzantine Erotica right off the bat

Spelling of Quebecois

UCD vs TCD

The Unspeakable Failures

Noncompletion, the lack of closure

A Failed Entertainment

Short Story Theory, resistance to closure

We don’t have neat narratives

How can you be done with something?

Starting IJ again

The peripheral stuff

Was IJ/DFW narcissistic?

The empathetic connection with readers

Incoherent need to communicate

The problem with romantic relationships--and Anne Geddes

Misogyny from a place of fear

The Granola Cruncher

The silencing of female characters

The Lionel Shriver issue

A poorly disguised avatar

Hungerford piece

The Joycean Boys Club

The C-word

Inhabiting other minds

Hurston not explaining things

White male protagonists. . . groan

VIDA count and the equivalent awareness

Separating the artist from the art

Ferrante & Knausgaard

Writing beyond his own perspective

Hardcore Theory Weenies

Conflating a couple of paradoxes

A fascinating disaster of a book

The conclusions of the failures

First attempt in Learning

Post on Poor Yorick’s Summer

Honest Ulsterman and motherhood

Easter Egg

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In this episode we talk with Wallace scholar Clare Hayes-Brady about her new book The Unspeakable Failures of David Foster Wallace.

http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-unspeakable-failures-of-david-foster-wallace-9781501313530/

She is Lecturer in American Literature at University College, Dublin.

We discuss a variety of issues in this episode including bad endings, DFW Studies, Ricoeur, love, Their Eyes Were Watching God, and assorted other things.

You can find her on Twitter https://twitter.com/ClareHayesBrady

Show notes

31:02 - The Lionel Shriver issue

35:45 - Hungerford piece

1:05:08 - Post on Poor Yorick’s Summer

1:05:30 - Honest Ulsterman and motherhood

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