Concavity Show
Concavity Show
Matt Bucher & Dave Laird
Episode 26: Discussing David Foster Wallace with Jeff Severs
1 hour 38 minutes Posted Mar 10, 2017 at 5:00 am.
Introductions
Austinites
James Manguson
MFA programs
Mary Carter - the name Matt was trying to think of
Overview of the book
Balance in general
Axiology - study of valuation
Heidegger defines axios
A Tripartite writer
A biographical approach
Juxtaposing hard labor with a dissolute consumerist society
GQ, Obama, rhetoric, 2008
The civic vision of the Pale King
Jeff correctly picks Moonlight as the Best Picture winner!
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In this episode, we talk with Jeff Severs, author of the excellent new book David Foster Wallace’s Balancing Books: Fictions of Value, published by Columbia University Press. Severs is associate professor of English at the University of British Columbia, Canada, Convexity.
Severs is also a noted Pynchon scholar, author of a number of scholarly articles and co-editor of a book about Against the Day.
His website can be found at https://jeffreysevers.wordpress.com/
 
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