To put my literary cards on the table: I am a rabid acolyte for David Foster
Wallace (hereafter DFW), his personality, and work. Cult leaders dream of
disciples with my dedication and single-mindedness.
I have written in the past—for instance, here
[http://www.cardus.ca/comment/article/1314/stranger-than-diction], here
[http://iambicadmonit.blogspot.com/2006/05/embodied-theology.html], here
[http://iambicadmonit.blogspot.com/2006/10/
We all know which child wizard first grabbed his Elementary Spells textbook and
walked the castle hallways to Magical History 101, right?
Not necessarily. Decades before J.K. Rowling put Harry and Ron
Just as lawyers are asked legal advice over dinner and doctors are asked to
diagnose conditions over cocktails, so writers are regularly asked to give free
consultations on How To Get Published. Much
About seven years ago, I decided to write a novel about my grandfather’s
experience in World War Two. I knew a very little bit about it: only that he’d
been a
