A new issue of Triple Canopy is out. The late David Foster Wallace didn’t settle for satire; Scott McLemee says farewell to a wild talent. Obsessive, ironical, needy: David Foster Wallace’s voice was the voice in your head. From n+1, Benjamin Kunkel on DFW, 1962-2008, and Jared Roscoe on Wallace, teacher. Here's a list of DFW material on the web. Here's the latest issue of Jewish Literary Supplement. From Brevity, Leslie Miller on how writing is a piece of cake. Debtor's prison: Margaret Atwood looks at the history and meaning of being in hock. From CJR, the business press is missing the crooked heart of the credit crisis. From FP, an interview on why you shouldn’t panic about the financial crisis; and a look at the world’s biggest bailouts. From ProPublica, here's a history of US government bailouts (and more on the Mother of All Bailouts) From Mother Jones, will the government bailout work? Many economists skeptical of the bailout. William Greider on how the Paulson bailout plan is a historic swindle. More on The Numerati by Stephen Baker. From The Village Voice, a look at the strange history of final games in stadiums slated for demolition. What would Thomas Jefferson think of Sarah Palin? From The New Yorker, a review of The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed; and freeing the elephants: Adam Gopnik on what Babar brought.
