I wrote a review of David Foster Wallace’s book A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again in 1997 for the late great Boston Phoenix, whose archives don’t seem to be online anymore. (SOB)
But I have a pdf copy, so here it is, for my own reference, and yours if for some reason you need it!
I should have anticipated this and downloaded all my Phoenix stuff. The first pieces I ever reported were there, a short one about a Michael Moore rally and a long one about the MLA. They’re gone. But wait! I was able to recover the MLA piece from the WayBack Machine. Thanks, WayBack Machine! I’ll post that later.
☞ http://library.northeastern.edu/archives-special-collections/find-collections/boston-phoenix-collection
☞ http://wayback.archive-it.org/1981/20151016163731/http://thephoenix.com/
“The way Wallace writes, I think, is the way I’ll remember having spoken.” is one of the most perceptive things I ever read about Wallace. I must have read the original piece in the Phoenix, because that line has been stuck in my head for years.
Man, I loved the Boston Phoenix. RIP.
WFNX is gone too
I was planning to comment exactly what Tom said! That line is dead-on.