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kottke (Free subscription) | yesterday
Before his health deteriorated in the months before he died, David Foster Wallace was working on a larger work of fiction presumed by some to be a new novel, his first since the 1996 publication of Infinite Jest. Word comes from Chaffey College that "An Untitled Chunk" of that larger work will be published in the school's literary review magazine . Before his death, Wallace agreed to...
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NY Daily News (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
Medical science has found no evidence that it's possible to overdose on musical crescendos. Otherwise, the "Hitman: David Foster and Friends" special would need a warning sticker.
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JazzHQ (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
Seal & David Foster paid a visit to Allen Kepler and the folks at the Smooth Jazz Top 20 Countdown today to promote Seal’s new album, Soul, and David Foster’s new CD/DVD release, Hit Man: David Foster & Friends. Released unto the world on November 11th, Seal’s new album is comprised of eleven classic soul songs that each evoke their own drama, emotion and romance....
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Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
" David Foster's autobiography , Hitman: Forty Years Making Music, Topping Charts & Winning Grammys , had barely hit bookstores before it was garnering the similarly disparate responses that have greeted his music."
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Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
WHITNEY HOUSTON, MADONNA and PAUL MCCARTNEY are among a long list of music legends whose bizarre behaviour is exposed in a new tell-all book by music mogul DAVID FOSTER. ...
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Spinner.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Filed under: Wacked News Spinner.com : When you've worked with Madonna, Frank Sinatra, Paul McCartney, Mariah Carey and, uh, Air Supply, you're bound to have a few stories to tell. Fifteen-time Grammy winner David Foster tells plenty in his new memoir, 'Hitman,' the title of which says as... Read more
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The Globe and Mail - Music News (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Producer-composer David Foster isn't so content with life that he wants to slow down
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EDSBS (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
A brief note on mental sanity. It is a truth universally accepted that if you worry about shit you cannot control, very soon you will lose your own shit completely and utterly. David Foster Wallace wrote books on infinity and the very essence of humanity’s need for entertainment. He hanged himself this year. Pascal, himself [...]
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Joels Trumpet (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
The following was sent to me by my friend David Foster. Among those that I know that are reaching out to the Muslim community with the Gospel message, David is one of my favorite people. His approach always reflects a maturity that combines the two elements most needed for reaching the Muslim community: [...]
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Quillblog (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
“A lopsided Sierpinski gasket.” David Foster Wallace discussing his then recently published breakthrough Infinite Jest, in a 1996 interview with radio host Michael Silverblatt. “No city I know, certainly not New York, has this variety of life, except perhaps London.” Novelist Amit Chaudhuri reflects on Mumbai, the city in which he was born. “For a writer, looking [...]
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New Statesman (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
There was no subject which David Foster Wallace could not write about. He was a hero to a generation. But struggled terribly with depression. This summer, he took his own life On the evening of 20 October this year a memorial service was held at Amherst College, Massachusetts, for the writer David Foster Wallace. Wallace, who graduated from Amherst in 1985, had hanged himself...
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atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
David Foster's autobiography, Hitman: Forty Years Making Music, Topping Charts & Winning Grammys , had barely hit bookstores before it was garnering the similarly disparate responses that have greeted his music.
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Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- Canadian record producer David Foster likes to make hits and doesn't mind admitting it. My success is directly related to whether people want it or not,, said Foster, who's won 15 Grammy Awards for his work with Chicago, Barbra Streisand, Whitney Houston, Michael Buble, Earth, Wind & Fire, Celine Dion, Nat King Cole and the Dreamgirls cast recording,...
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PerezHilton.com (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
Music hit maker David Foster has just released a memoir called, Hitman. He's worked with everyone from Madonna to Frank Sinatra so you know it' could be a good read! One of Foster's quips about former-Beatle Paul McCartney made its way into one the NY papers today, Tuesday. He said collaborating with Macca was "a little like [...]
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Comments for edroso - HaloScan.com (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
Adding: I am reminded of David Foster Wallace's observation that when you point at something, a dog will only look at your finger.
