David Foster Wallace : in his own words / David Foster Wallace ; [introduction written and read by John Jeremiah Sullivan].
Record details
- ISBN: 9781478900733
- ISBN: 1478900733
- Physical Description: 8 audio discs (540 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: New York : Hachette Audio, [2014]
- Copyright: ℗2014
Content descriptions
General Note: | Title from disc surface. Compact disc. "Includes live and studio recordings"--Container. "Selected pieces"--Container. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Disc 1. Introduction by John Jeremiah Sullivan -- Interview with Judith Strasser on "To the Best of Our Knowledge" (Wisconsin Public Radio) -- Interview from The Leonard Lopate Show (WNYC Radio) -- Brief interviews with hideous men -- Discs 2-3. Brief interviews with hideous men -- Disc 4. Brief interviews with hideous men -- Reading of "Another pioneer" (The University of Arizona Poetry Center) -- Consider the lobster -- Discs 5-7. Consider the lobster -- Disc 8. Conversation with Rick Moody at the Herbst Theater (City Arts & Lectures, San Francisco) -- This is water. |
Creation/Production Credits Note: | Produced and edited by Michele McGonigle. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by the author. |
Summary, etc.: | Collected here for the first time are the stories and speeches of David Foster Wallace as read by the author himself. Some of the pieces collected here are: 'Another Pioneer,' recorded at The University of Arizona Poetry Center; stories from Brief Interviews with Hideous Men and Consider the Lobster; and the unforgettable 'This Is Water,' his 2005 commencement address given at Kenyon College. |
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Subject: | Wallace, David Foster > Interviews. Authors, American > 20th century > Interviews. |
Genre: | Audiobooks. Short stories. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.