Five Dials

Five Dials

CELEBRATING THE LIFE AND WORk OF DAVID FOSTER WALLACE

1962?2008

A Five Dials Special

published by hamish hamilton

These tributes were given on 23 October, 2008 at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, New York University, and are reproduced here with the kind permission of the authors and of Bonnie Nadell, David

Foster Wallace's literary agent and longtime friend.

Copyright in each tribute remains with its author.

Finally, know that an unshot skeet's movement against the vast lapis lazuli dome of the open ocean's sky is sun-like ? i.e. orange and parabolic and right-to-left ?

and that its disappearance into the sea is edge-first and splashless and sad. --from A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again

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Talks and Readings by Amy Wallace-Havens

Bonnie Nadell Gerry Howard Colin Harrison Michael Pietsch

Don DeLillo Zadie Smith George Saunders Jonathan Franzen

Artwork by michael schmelling

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