Etc. = 'etcetera' cicadas, calliope - I just can't

Brilliant talk - how he loops the futile struggle to interpret or assign meaning to art back to Kafka's very own themes is so satisfying. Though I would say "Ms. O'Connor" (assuming he's referring to Flannery O'Connor) is one of the closest American storytellers to Kafka's interpretation and usage of humor.

one of my faves by dusty i listen to your reading when i work out

Thanks for this reading. Great material, good voice, well edited, no fumbles. I did hear some mis-pronunciations. Not sure how DF Wallace would have felt about that - he was quite a stickler for language . . . The words I caught as being pronounced incorrectly are: pince-nez, christen, epaulettes, cadre, respite, acoustic, serape, puerile, pedantry, bow, scheme, picayune, crepe From this list you can surmise that I listened carefully to your entire recording, some parts twice, so accept that as a compliment for your efforts. Thanks again!

rest in peace. the internet as it is right now wouldve drove him insane

IDK whether DFW was appalled or attracted to these characters. I suspect he wasn’t appalled enough.

Hell ya. That's some dam good science fiction

Thoroughly enjoyed this, thank you for the reading!

Bukoski

Hell yeah! Favorite narrator reading one of my favorite authors

Listened to a podcast that was talking about this article and wanted to hear it for myself before I went any further. So glad I was able to come to YT and listen to it right away. Thank you

Thank you for these narrations. I found you through Wallace and have enjoyed many of the short stories you’ve read.

Good 👍

Thank you sir, I like your narrations; and thank you for bringing this beautiful story to my attention.

David Foster Wallace has an amazing ability to work words into all kinds of interesting shapes and sizes.

You're awesome.

It,s about Elixabeth Wurtzel

Your reading is fantastic! Thank you 🙏 love this one. Always been a hugggge DeLillo fan, I'm too stupid for Pynchon and I'm too full of myself to enjoy DFW. But DeLillo really hits the spot for me - though I can usually only read/ listen for a few pages at a time. He gets so in my head 😅 it's a bit unnerving realizing how predictable I am because we share this American blood.

Wow Native Companion rocks!

This is so powerful. It hurts. Incredible writing gets inside you. Like a waking dream state. Thank you.

I can't stand "quote / end quote"

i appreciate it when Lynch takes risks and mixes novel with absurd fiction and visual horror, but he abused his creative freedom in twin peaks, like an architect in dubai given unlimited budget who built a house's shell out of sand and no rooms. In contrast, Inland Empire seemed to contain all the creative turns that Lynch wanted to take, but didn't lead the viewer in a fruitless quest for a plot. Twin Peaks sold us a plot and delivered nothing, and we bought it for too long.

What I find really interesting upon listening to this, which didn't occur to me when I read it many years ago, is how DFW clearly invests deeply in the things that, he says, Lynch does not care about. For example, Lynch has no care at all to jockey for status in Hollywood, and yet DFW discusses at length his own personal power rankings of directors. In other words, his detailed definition of what is Lynchian omits the simple fact that he himself is not Lynchian, nor is his work, and perhaps that's why he's the ideal ethnographer of Lynch and his oeuvre.

Thanks! I appreciate this <3

Thanks for posting. I live around an hour away from Bloomington/normal, and as someone too young to remember, this article was a really interesting perspective.

Thanks so much

Hey hi. I love you. I don’t. I mean I don’t even know you. But I’m writing here because I’ve got a request: will you do Little Expressionless Animals? If not, I’m going to and it’s going to give me really bad anxiety and that anxiety will be in part due to you.

I CANNOT stand the robotic narration. Surely there's an English-speaking human somewhere who is willing to volunteer some time. 29 Apr 2024

Thanks for making this suggestion!

00:40:00 private language

Fun story. Made me laugh 😂

Thanks dude. I love your stuff.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion... I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. I have briefly joined a conga line. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

This channel is gold. Thank you very much for doing this. If possible; try reading some longer journalistic essays or stories. Could be interesting. Like the ones written by patrick radden keefe, and Sinatra has a cold like you did before

Awesome reading. Have you thought about doing some Pale King? Maybe the Chris Fogle monologue?

You are the only voice besides Wallace himself that I am willing to hear read Wallace. Do you have an Instagram or other social platform?

Another awesome reading. Thanks!

Sometimes you just gotta llay the hits

Another banger. Good job

Do you have an email for people to send you a recommendation or whatnot?