Podcast Episodes featuring David Foster Wallace

Episode 227: A Terrible Master (David Foster Wallace's "This Is Water").

Very Bad Wizards - December 21, 2021 21:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2.4K ratings
David and Tamler dive into David Foster Wallace’s celebrated and surprisingly earnest Kenyon College commencement speech “This is Water”. How can we escape the prison and prism of our (literally) self-centered perspective? Can we choose to adjust our natural default settings, take a break from o...

Episode 181: The Fraudulence Paradox (David Foster Wallace's "Good Old Neon")

Very Bad Wizards - January 28, 2020 23:30 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 2.4K ratings
Our whole lives we’ve been frauds. We’re not exaggerating. Pretty much all we’ve ever done is try to create a certain impression of us in other people. Mostly to be liked or admired. This episode is a perfect example, Tamler pretending to be a cinephile (check out his four favorite pieces of 2019...

DAVID FOSTER WALLACE: Obsessed Ep 73

Obsessed with Joseph Scrimshaw - March 17, 2015 06:18 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 188 ratings
Comedy writer and producer Mark Ganek (The Wil Wheaton Project, Pop Up Video) is obsessed with author David Foster Wallace. Thrill to such topics as how to endnote your own thoughts, the existential dread edition of Galaga, solo DnD play, … Continue reading →

Michael Hoyer on David Foster Wallace

Entitled Opinions (about Life and Literature) - June 12, 2013 08:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 263 ratings

Five days with David Foster Wallace: author and journalist David Lipsky

Notebook on Cities and Culture - July 16, 2010 05:51 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 124 ratings
Colin Marshall talks to David Lipsky, contributing editor at Rolling Stone and author of Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace. Crafted out of transcripts of a five day-long conversation between Lipsky and Wallace on the tail end of the publicity ...