Rex Sorgatz
What is this? A fimoculous is a micro-organism that consumes its own waste for sustenance. Draw your own metaphors.
Thanks for this. I'm really sunk, in large part because I always thought DFW had at least one more great novel in him.
"Did you know that US lexicography even had a seamy underbelly?"
Thanks for all the links! Just what I was looking for.
DFW's "Host" in the April 2005 Atlantic Monthly is the starship excellent of reportage.
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200504/wallace
There's also DFW's look at what he called "F/X Porn."
unsurprisingly, the howling fantods have compiled an an incredibly comprehensive list -->
http://www.thehowlingfantods.com/dfw/dfw-1962-2008.html
And Harpers has everything he wrote for them as PDF. (http://harpers.org/#hbc-90003557)
This will keep us busy fending off the coldhard reality for a while, I suppose.