David Foster Wallace Interview 2003 (04/09)

[das908kind]

This is clearly the raw footage from an edited interview, since he asks "will this be in the interview?" and behind the camera is stated, "no, none of her talking will be in the final interview". Hearing the raw material with out editing is great - much more revealing and true to conversation.

[pancakerepairman]

i love how he immediately adds his additions to her story like he's writing it

[DanteDellamorte]

who's the character / girl he hates? I can't figure out. Anybody?

[ohfoolishworkerbee]

@DanteDellamorte He's referring to the unnamed title character from "The Depressed person," a short story from Brief Interviews With Hideous Men. The interviewer mentioned it but it's really hard to hear. Great story, he expresses dislike for the character but I think it was loosely based on Dave himself. :/

[DanteDellamorte]

@ohfoolishworkerbee Alright thank you, I couldn't hear the interviewer, and besides English is not my primary language. I think it was based on himself too.

[goodvibesallround]

Library's are quite. But i get where he's coming from.....and i wish you could smoke in cafe's now days.....fuck that sucks, lol

[MichaelStepkoff]

As anyone who has tried to kill themselves knows, there comes a time when you either shit or get off the pot.

[jfullerw]

DFW predicted netflix

[julian185]

what short story are they talking about when they discuss the depressive person?

[MasterOfPuppets24]

@julian185 "The Depressed Person" ha. 

[winters0123]

His comments about boredom, solitude and a fear/dread of it reminded me of The Pale King. He was working on it at the time. I think we should look for clues in interviews like this that link to The Pale King, perhaps suggesting topics he intended to cover in it and that he was interested in. He can't tell us now what he intended the book to encapsulate but he may have told us in the past.

[richardizzle1]

He's one of those rare types of people that when you meet, you have to take time to listen to until they find their mark, and their way of expressing themselves find their way to you

[KainUndAbel2]

Tolle Erfahrung, DF Wallace beim Sprechen zusehen zu können. Nur schade, dass wir nicht erleben können, wie er sich mit einem ebenbürtig- unkonventionellen Gesprächspartner in die Lüfte geschraubt hätte. Ihre Fragen sind flach, knäckebrottrocken, schlicht zu wage-un-mutig.

Liebe Grüße an alle Freunde der heiß geliebten elitären Literatur!

[RexPermanent87]

@KainUndAbel2

ja, ich verstehe auch nicht, wie man eine solch offensichtlich sehr unerfahrene reporterin, wohl gerad frisch aus der uni gekommen dfw gegenübersetzen konnte. Ihrer fragen sind flach, wirken teils naiv und ihr englisch, was mich persönlich an schulzeiten erinnert, wird einem genie der sprache, wie dfw es ist, nicht gerecht.

[RexPermanent87]

@KainUndAbel2

ja, ich verstehe auch nicht, wie man eine solch offensichtlich sehr unerfahrene reporterin, wohl gerad frisch aus der uni gekommen dfw gegenübersetzen konnte. Ihrer fragen sind flach, wirken teils naiv und ihr englisch, was mich persönlich an schulzeiten erinnert, wird einem genie der sprache, wie dfw es ist, nicht gerecht.



[ZachClooney]

Thanks for posting these David Foster Wallace interviews. Great stuff here on the act of reading, the role of silence...  It is people like you WasglotzDuso who, by putting these videos on the internet, keep the memory, relevance and importance of a writer like DFW.

[saltemann]

@ZachClooney eer, his books also, I'd imagine..