"Why's this so good?" No. 16: David Foster Wallace on the vagaries of
For seven days and seven nights in mid-March of 1995, David Foster Wallace took a cruise. He did not have a very good time. The results of the voyage are recorded in " Shipping Out ," an extended essay, framed playfully as an ad for a cruise ship, that ran in Harper's in early 1996. (It was later re-titled " A Supposedly Fun Thing I ...
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
35318437. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments is a 1997 collection of nonfiction writing by David Foster Wallace . In the title essay, originally published in Harper's as "Shipping Out", Wallace describes the excesses of his one-week trip in the Caribbean aboard the cruise ship MV Zenith, which he rechristens the Nadir.
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and…
40,322 ratings3,159 reviews. In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean luxury cruiseliner — David Foster Wallace brings to ...
Fires, collisions, and Kurt Russell: The untold history of David Foster
After over two decades in service for different cruise lines, Zenith was sold in 2019 to Peace Boat, an altruistically oriented cruise line founded in the '80s by Yoshioka Tatsuya. The activist was nominated for the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize, and his seemed like a fitting flag for Zenith to sail under in her sunset days.
Voluntarily and For Pay, by David Foster Wallace
To be specific: voluntarily and for pay, I underwent a seven-night Caribbean cruise on board the m.v. Zenith (which no wag could resist immediately rechristening the m.v. Nadir), a 47,255-ton ship owned by Celebrity Cruises, Inc., one of the twenty-odd cruise lines that operate out of south Florida and specialize in "Megaships," the ...
On David Foster Wallace, Host Jon Baskin, Guest Lauren Oyler
"The reason it's so hard to write a cruise piece is because of David Foster Wallace," explains Lauren Oyler, a critic and the author of the novel Fake Accounts. In her recent Harper's Magazine cover story, she takes on Wallace's 1997 cruise essay, also published in Harper's, as she describes her experience aboard the Goop cruise."But I didn't want it to just be a work of ...
David Foster Wallace on 'A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again'
David Foster Wallace's essays have their own unique cult following. There's one, "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again," which is a hilarious diatribe about cruise ships. It even inspired an episode of the Simpsons, " A Totally Fun Thing Bart Will Never Do Again ," Bart goes on a cruise with his family and loves it — which ...
David Foster Wallace interview on his Seven-Night Caribbean Cruise (WPR
In this interview, David Foster Wallace reads from his essay, "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" and discusses his week long experience on that cru...
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
These widely acclaimed essays from the author of Infinite Jest -- on television, tennis, cruise ships, and more -- established David Foster Wallace as one of the preeminent essayists of his generation. In this exuberantly praised book -- a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary ...
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
These widely acclaimed essays from the author of Infinite Jest -- on television, tennis, cruise ships, and more -- established David Foster Wallace as one of the preeminent essayists of his generation. In this exuberantly praised book -- a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary ...
Crying Myself to Sleep on the Biggest Cruise Ship Ever
"Author embarks on their first cruise-ship voyage" has been a staple of American essay writing for almost three decades, beginning with David Foster Wallace's "A Supposedly Fun Thing I ...
Diving Into the "Uncanny Despair" of the Cruise Ship Narrative
An early draft of my novel, The Odyssey, imagined a near future in which beach holidays were rendered impossible due to coastal erosion.Cruises become the de-facto luxury vacation, the place to go to relax and indulge. However, the more time I spent with the novel, the more I realized that like Wallace, I was interested in the cruise ship as this uncanny site of despair.
In Search of America Aboard the Icon of the Seas
This is the biggest cruise ship ever built, and I have been tasked with witnessing its inaugural voyage." ... Most notably: David Foster Wallace, who ended up spending much of his cruise ...
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
These widely acclaimed essays from the author of Infinite Jest — on television, tennis, cruise ships, and more — established David Foster Wallace as one of the preeminent essayists of his generation. In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern ...
CRUISIN' WITH DAVID FOSTER WALLACE
But you need not plow through that 980-page melange to know that David Foster Wallace dwelled in dire conclusions — about life, literature, even a "supposedly fun thing." "There's something about a mass-market Luxury Cruise that's unbearably sad," he wrote early on.
David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 - September 12, 2008) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, ... and the September 11 attacks for Rolling Stone; cruise ships (in what became the title essay of his first nonfiction book), state fairs, ...
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on a Caribbean cruise. To be specific: volun-tarily and for pay, I underwent a 7-Night Caribbean (7NC) Cruise on board the m.v. Zenith (which no wag could resist immediately rechristening the m.v. Nadir), a 47,255-ton ship owned by Celebrity Cruises, Inc., one of the twenty-odd cruise lines that operate out of south Florida and specialize in ...
The Dreadful Cruise of David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace (1962-2008) exemplifies the general rule that applies to most postwar American novelists, whose realistic essays are more powerful and persuasive than their imaginative works. ... Wallace sees only decay, corrosion, disintegration and death on the primordial and surrealistic ship of fools. As the mercifully short cruise ...
Jordan Peterson "Hated Liking" David Foster Wallace's Cruise Ship Story
An excerpt from Jordan B. Peterson's 1996 Maps of Meaning lectures from Harvard University, where he comments on David Foster Wallace's "Shipping Out", also ...
A Totally Fun Thing Bart Will Never Do Again
The title and parts of the plot are a reference to the 1996 essay "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" by American writer David Foster Wallace that describes his experiences on a cruise. In one scene, a character appears in the background that supposedly resembles Foster Wallace.
Shipping Out: On the (Nearly Lethal) Comforts of a Luxury Cruise
David Foster Wallace worked surprising turns on nearly everything: novels, journalism, vacation. His life was an information hunt, collecting hows and whys. ... Cruise ships are the perfected formula of hedonistic intake, and he captures just about every single characteristic of cruising that should be captured in a critical essay that can't ...
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I am not excited to go on a cruise. I am not a "cruise person." I don't boat. I've read my Geoff Dyer and my David Foster Wallace.I've watched "The Perfect Storm" a weird number of ...
Lauren Oyler ships out on Goop cruise, in David Foster Wallace's wake
April 19, 2023 at 6:52 p.m. EDT. When Harper's Magazine published David Foster Wallace's cruise essay in January 1996, it inspired a generation of writers to follow in his wake. More than 25 years ...
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For seven days and seven nights in mid-March of 1995, David Foster Wallace took a cruise. He did not have a very good time. The results of the voyage are recorded in " Shipping Out ," an extended essay, framed playfully as an ad for a cruise ship, that ran in Harper's in early 1996. (It was later re-titled " A Supposedly Fun Thing I ...
35318437. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments is a 1997 collection of nonfiction writing by David Foster Wallace . In the title essay, originally published in Harper's as "Shipping Out", Wallace describes the excesses of his one-week trip in the Caribbean aboard the cruise ship MV Zenith, which he rechristens the Nadir.
40,322 ratings3,159 reviews. In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean luxury cruiseliner — David Foster Wallace brings to ...
After over two decades in service for different cruise lines, Zenith was sold in 2019 to Peace Boat, an altruistically oriented cruise line founded in the '80s by Yoshioka Tatsuya. The activist was nominated for the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize, and his seemed like a fitting flag for Zenith to sail under in her sunset days.
To be specific: voluntarily and for pay, I underwent a seven-night Caribbean cruise on board the m.v. Zenith (which no wag could resist immediately rechristening the m.v. Nadir), a 47,255-ton ship owned by Celebrity Cruises, Inc., one of the twenty-odd cruise lines that operate out of south Florida and specialize in "Megaships," the ...
"The reason it's so hard to write a cruise piece is because of David Foster Wallace," explains Lauren Oyler, a critic and the author of the novel Fake Accounts. In her recent Harper's Magazine cover story, she takes on Wallace's 1997 cruise essay, also published in Harper's, as she describes her experience aboard the Goop cruise."But I didn't want it to just be a work of ...
David Foster Wallace's essays have their own unique cult following. There's one, "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again," which is a hilarious diatribe about cruise ships. It even inspired an episode of the Simpsons, " A Totally Fun Thing Bart Will Never Do Again ," Bart goes on a cruise with his family and loves it — which ...
In this interview, David Foster Wallace reads from his essay, "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" and discusses his week long experience on that cru...
These widely acclaimed essays from the author of Infinite Jest -- on television, tennis, cruise ships, and more -- established David Foster Wallace as one of the preeminent essayists of his generation. In this exuberantly praised book -- a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary ...
These widely acclaimed essays from the author of Infinite Jest -- on television, tennis, cruise ships, and more -- established David Foster Wallace as one of the preeminent essayists of his generation. In this exuberantly praised book -- a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary ...
"Author embarks on their first cruise-ship voyage" has been a staple of American essay writing for almost three decades, beginning with David Foster Wallace's "A Supposedly Fun Thing I ...
An early draft of my novel, The Odyssey, imagined a near future in which beach holidays were rendered impossible due to coastal erosion.Cruises become the de-facto luxury vacation, the place to go to relax and indulge. However, the more time I spent with the novel, the more I realized that like Wallace, I was interested in the cruise ship as this uncanny site of despair.
This is the biggest cruise ship ever built, and I have been tasked with witnessing its inaugural voyage." ... Most notably: David Foster Wallace, who ended up spending much of his cruise ...
These widely acclaimed essays from the author of Infinite Jest — on television, tennis, cruise ships, and more — established David Foster Wallace as one of the preeminent essayists of his generation. In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern ...
But you need not plow through that 980-page melange to know that David Foster Wallace dwelled in dire conclusions — about life, literature, even a "supposedly fun thing." "There's something about a mass-market Luxury Cruise that's unbearably sad," he wrote early on.
David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 - September 12, 2008) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, ... and the September 11 attacks for Rolling Stone; cruise ships (in what became the title essay of his first nonfiction book), state fairs, ...
on a Caribbean cruise. To be specific: volun-tarily and for pay, I underwent a 7-Night Caribbean (7NC) Cruise on board the m.v. Zenith (which no wag could resist immediately rechristening the m.v. Nadir), a 47,255-ton ship owned by Celebrity Cruises, Inc., one of the twenty-odd cruise lines that operate out of south Florida and specialize in ...
David Foster Wallace (1962-2008) exemplifies the general rule that applies to most postwar American novelists, whose realistic essays are more powerful and persuasive than their imaginative works. ... Wallace sees only decay, corrosion, disintegration and death on the primordial and surrealistic ship of fools. As the mercifully short cruise ...
An excerpt from Jordan B. Peterson's 1996 Maps of Meaning lectures from Harvard University, where he comments on David Foster Wallace's "Shipping Out", also ...
The title and parts of the plot are a reference to the 1996 essay "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" by American writer David Foster Wallace that describes his experiences on a cruise. In one scene, a character appears in the background that supposedly resembles Foster Wallace.
David Foster Wallace worked surprising turns on nearly everything: novels, journalism, vacation. His life was an information hunt, collecting hows and whys. ... Cruise ships are the perfected formula of hedonistic intake, and he captures just about every single characteristic of cruising that should be captured in a critical essay that can't ...
I am not excited to go on a cruise. I am not a "cruise person." I don't boat. I've read my Geoff Dyer and my David Foster Wallace.I've watched "The Perfect Storm" a weird number of ...
April 19, 2023 at 6:52 p.m. EDT. When Harper's Magazine published David Foster Wallace's cruise essay in January 1996, it inspired a generation of writers to follow in his wake. More than 25 years ...