A Bit on Abbreviations

I'm glad that nobody is reading this blog (yet), because I have yet to figure out exactly what the heck it is. But, just in case I have one reader (I remember telling one person about it at a recent conference, and he added it to his Firefox bookmarks, but I'll assume that he's since deleted that mistake), there are 4 abbreviations that I feel I need to provide.

DFW - David Foster Wallace
JCO - Joyce Carol Oates
WTV - Willliam T. Vollmann
TCB - T.C. Boyle

So, in that vain, two links of interest to DFW fans:

1) A transcript of a commencement address he gave this past May.
2) A hopeful piece on getting a Q&A with DFW, but winds up just talking about his books.

More on "Consider the Lobster"

Plumbing depths, from dinner to dictionaries

"Consider the Lobster carries a subtext, which is "Consider the Writer." It is difficult to know from the printed page how much of his quirkiness is organic and how much of it is studied. Whatever the answer, it is always welcome."

DFW v. SAW

David Foster Wallace vs. Strunk And White

"On one hand, The Elements of Style has been considered the de facto usage and style bible for more than 80 years. And yet, our preeminent American stylist naysays many of its rules. Let's compare the two to see just what the f*** is going on."

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