David Foster Wallace write one of our best-loved science fiction - colour literary novels , Infinite Jest , sohis suicide was a Brobdingnagian loss . Now his newspaper are on display , and you’re able to learn some of his scribbled notes on two genre classics .
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The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin acquired Wallace ’s archive last year , consisting of 30 box and eight oversized folders , and announced last calendar month that it ’s open to researchers . And they ’ve put some tantalizing CAT scan online , include one handwritten varlet from the first draught of Infinite Jest . They ’ve also put up a few scans of Wallace ’s dog - eared and scribble - incubate copies of some bookshe taught in his family at Pomona College , “ English 102 — Literary Analysis I : Prose Fiction . ” Here ’s his notes on a pair pages from Stephen King ’s Carrie :
And Wallace ’s notes on a couple Page from The Lion , The Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis :
It would be so cool to see a transcription of him teaching those books . disconsolate if you saw this when it go up in September , but I only just found it today . [ Harry Ransom Center ]
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