Page 7 - Foster Wallace News Today

The New York Times columnist says extraordinary things happen—both personally and socially—when we pay attention to others.

Fewer and fewer Americans profess to believe in God with each passing year; and when it comes to the younger generations, the lack of faith, and the decline of Christianity, is rising rapidly.

The How I Met Your Mother star is in a new Off-Broadway play, The Ally , about discourse around Israel and Palestine.

9/21/2019 – Michigan 14, Wisconsin 35 – 2-1, 0-1 Big Ten The End of the Tour, a movie about Rolling Stone writer David Lipsky glomming on to David Foster Wallace at the end of his Infinite Jest book tour, is immediately good. The first sensory experience the movie gives you is the ultra-deep cut instrumental from REM's Automatic For the People: This is a song with no oboes in it that sounds like nothing but oboes. It is weird, lilting, and mournful, a funeral for geese. The opening scen...

Mei Chin on Holy Show; Dublin Review; Banshee; Splonk; and Four Faced Liar

The Slow Learners podcast explores Thomas Pynchons "Gravitys Rainbow" in its first season.

'I also cannot easily describe my job to people around me.... If the cops asked my parents what I did for a living, they’d probably take an eternity to guess correctly, let alone describe my entire career.'

Image Eric Zwieg of Batavia looks through the banister at GO Art!, where his first staged reading, "Passenger: A Billion Little Pieces," will be presented at 7 p.m. Nov. 9. Photo by Howard Owens A

As with most streaming shows of late, at least the ones that try to be edgy (which means pretty much all of them), it takes a minute to process what you’ve watched sometimes. Such is the case with Netflix’s Lady Dynamite which so far tops the list of confusing and bizarre streaming shows.

“The exhibition flips the Western gaze back on itself to reflect that in present-day North American culture, we are all in a cargo cult."