Yes, that’s right. I’ve made it to the big time.
Joe Coscarelli contacted me about Infinite Summer and I wrote a huge reply back and got into his article about the phenomenon.
http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/07/14/infinite_summer/
That’s right, I’m in (or is it on?) Salon.com!
And, better yet, I’m mentioned in the same article as Colin Meloy!
Aw, heck since the article was pretty short (I think my email response to his questions was longer than the total piece), I’ll just print it here. My only gripe is that he didn’t include my blog link (there must not have been enough space). Nevertheless, pretty cool.
David Foster Wallace lives on for an “Infinite Summer”
One giant book, 92 days, thousands of readers — and the world’s most ambitious reading group
By Joe Coscarelli
Jul. 14, 2009 |
There are many ways to cope with death, but founding an online book club is a pretty unique approach. “When I heard that David Foster Wallace had died, it was like remembering an assignment that had been due the day before,” said Matthew Baldwin. A blogger who regretted never having finished “Infinite Jest,” Baldwin founded InfiniteSummer.org, a Web site and collaborative reading experiment that creates a vast literary support group for completing the late author’s 1,079-page tome over the course of this summer. (more…)
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