I basically wrote this book.

DFW26 - The International David Foster Wallace Society International David Foster Wallace Conference 2026 June 4–6, 2026 UPDATE: 3/10/26 Registration is now open! You can register for the conference here.  UPDATE: 3/3/26 Featured Speaker: John Jeremiah Su...

Registration is now open for DFW26 in Austin. Speakers include John Jeremiah Sullivan, Bret Anthony Johnston, Deb Olin Unferth and others with 3 names. And many great academic presentations. dfwsociety.org/dfw26/ @DFWSociety

DFW26 - The International David Foster Wallace Society International David Foster Wallace Conference 2026 June 4–6, 2026 UPDATE: 3/3/26 Featured Speaker: John Jeremiah Sullivan  Jeremiah Sullivan is the author of Blood Horses: Notes of a Sportswriter’s So...

Featured speakers at #DFW26 in Austin: John Jeremiah Sullivan and Bret Anthony Johnston: dfwsociety.org/dfw26/ @DFWSociety #DavidFosterWallaceConference

Thirty years ago today, I attended the book party for Infinite Jest. Just after Dave’s death I wrote a little about the party — and about editing a story of his for Tennis magazine — in a blog post on @mcsweeneys.net (along with contributions from @mattbucher.bsky.social and others).

We're looking for grad students who might want to work as volunteers at #MLA26 in exchange for free registration. We'll make sure you get plenty of time to go to sessions! www.mla.org/Events/2026-...

The annual David Foster Wallace conference will be held in Austin in June 2026! Here's the call for papers: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/09/...

Oh no! That’s terrible news.

"Listen, the years are short. They are nothing.
I write each morning, while you are at work."

Read this poem today: gradychambers.com/notes-on-str... (originally published in the New Yorker, 2020)

A scholar examines a postcard in the Harry Ransom Center's reading room. Her photo is framed by a blue square with "FELLOWSHIP APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN" written on each side. That image is positioned in front of a section of the etched windows on the Ransom Center's first floor, which showcase highlights from our collections. More info about the Ransom Center's fellowships: https://www.hrc.utexas.edu/fellowships/

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"The letters Wallace sent to Washington add detail to a particularly vulnerable period of Wallace’s life..."

#ICYMI: @mattbucher.bsky.social wrote a blog post about a recent addition to @ransomcenter.bsky.social's #DavidFosterWallace Collection.

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Alice in Wonderland syndrome - Wikipedia

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I met Jane Goodall in 1997 or 98, before everyone had cell phones and cameras. She was giving a lecture but I don’t remember anything about it except thinking, “wow, Jane Goodall is giving a talk here. I am at a Jane Goodall lecture.”

Please, Jobu, let Austin win this one game.

Our 2026 DFW conference in Austin welcomes scholars and non-academics of all backgrounds. Our call for papers is now live: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/09/...

Just picked up two new books for my summer TBR pile. Excited for both of these! @bookpeople.com @lucaseschaefer.bsky.social @mattbucher.bsky.social

Current plan for this evening: @mattbucher.bsky.social’s latest, _The Summer Layoff_. Hot off the press.

Hey, thanks so much! Hope you dig it!

Leo 'The Summer Layoff', de Matt Bucher, que continúa la historia del narrador de 'The Belan Deck'. Ambas son novelas experimentales, marksonianas y marcianas, que configuran un rizoma psíquico que acaba siendo socio-patológico. Una épica de lo infraleve que pienso seguir hasta el final.

Bolanño illustrated www.penguinlibros.com/es/literatur... (via @mattbucher.bsky.social)

A sort of meta-blurb from Adam Levin, author of The Instructions.

Our old listserv, wallace-l, turns 29 years young today. Here's a thing I wrote for the 20th anniversary: www.mattbucher.com/2016/04/29/t...

Matt Bucher’s The Summer Layoff (Book acquired, 24 April 2025) Matt Bucher’s forthcoming novel The Summer Layoff is a semi-sequel to his debut, The Belan Deck. Blurb: On Day 1, the narrator of The Summer Layoff is unceremoniously canned from his soul-suc…

Matt Bucher's The Summer Layoff (Book acquired, 24 April 2025) biblioklept.org/2025/04/24/m...

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"Hugely, spring exists again"—John Ashbery

Weather in Austin is currently perfect.

"Nothing is partially incomplete, but the wait / Invests everything like a climate. / What time of day is it? / Does anything matter? / Yes, for you must wait to see what it is really like"

Episode 84 - Sergio De La Pava, author of Every Arc Bends Its Radian Podcast Episode · Concavity Show · 02/27/2025 · 1h 5m

Really pleased that we had the chance to sit and talk with Sergio de la Pava and discuss his latest novel. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...