The folks over at Broadcastr asked me to participate in the David Foster Wallace Appreciation Project. I’ve written a little bit about Wallace here on the blog as well as over on Burnside (also, check out my BWC editor, Jordan Green’s, piece on Wallace), so I was really excited to be part of the David Foster Wallace Appreciation Project on Broadcastr.
For anyone who doesn’t know, David Foster Wallace‘s novel The Pale King comes out today. This highly anticipated book is being published posthumously by Little, Brown and Company.
Broadcastr is compiling stories from fans to celebrate the release of The Pale King. In my appreciation story, I talk about resisting and embracing David Foster Wallace’s style in my own writing.
And when I say “talk,” I mean it literally. Broadcastr is a social-media platform that collects audio stories. Last year I was working on curricula for a documentary that involved oral storytelling so I was really intrigued by the idea of contributing audio. I’ve done a live reading here or there, but this is the first time I’ve ever done a recording. I hate the sound of my own voice when I hear it on answering machines so I was a bit hesitant, but in the end I really enjoyed the experience of recording something I’d written. It was a whole new way of viewing a story.
The name of my Broadcastr post is called “Accepting and Rejecting the Influence of David Foster Wallace.” I hope you’ll check it out and let me know what you think!
Stephanie Nikolopoulos 
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