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PIER PRESSURE: SPEEDY ORTIZ SET SAIL ON THE CHARLES

Written by NINA CORCORAN Posted August 30, 2015 Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC

Speedy Ortiz talk pool floats, cannonballs, and yacht rock before they play a cruise ship with Downtown Boys and Francine.

Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC Tagged With: 311, Boston, cruise, David Foster Wallace, Dig, DigBoston, Downtown Boys, Francine, Interview, Liars, Paramore, Rock and Blues Cruise, Seaport, Seaport District, Speedy Ortiz, Weezer, Widowspeak, World Trade Center Pier

ACK-FEST: A CHEAT SHEET TO THE UPCOMING NANTUCKET FILM FESTIVAL

Written by JAKE MULLIGAN Posted June 21, 2015 Filed Under: A+E, Film

Our summer preview issue was last week, but to see the movies opening throughout the season, you’d do well to consider a festival starting June 24 on The Grey Lady.

 

The Nantucket Film Festival will be playing movies just arriving in town or slated to open in Boston throughout the summer, so ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Film Tagged With: David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, jesse eisenberg, me and earl and the dying girl, nantucket film festival, Rolling Stone, sleeping with other people, the end of the tour, the wolfpack

IFFBOSTON DIARY: DAYS ONE AND TWO

Written by JAKE MULLIGAN Posted May 1, 2015 Filed Under: A+E, Film

The first days at the Independent Film Festival Boston ‘15 gave us a look at films opening throughout summer.

Filed Under: A+E, Film Tagged With: Allston, Andrew Bujalski, Cobie Smulders, Daft Punk, David Foster Wallace, eden, Guy Pearce, independent film festival boston, Infinite Jest, jesse eisenberg, Kevin Corrigan, Results, the end of the tour

IFF-Y PROGRAMMING: A RUNDOWN OF THE 2015 INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL BOSTON

Written by JAKE MULLIGAN Posted April 22, 2015 Filed Under: A+E, Film

If you were to customize a calendar by marking off the events most integral to Boston film culture, there’s one week you’d highlight a shade deeper than the rest: The Independent Film Festival Boston.

Filed Under: A+E, Film Tagged With: 2015 iff boston, Albert Maysles, Andrew Bujalski, Barry Crimmins, Bobcat Goldthwait, Brattle Theatre, Cobie Smulders, Coolidge Corner Theatre, David Chen, David Foster Wallace, documentary, Guy Pearce, independent, James Ponsoldt, jason segal, jesse eisenberg, Joshua Oppenheimer, somerville theatre, Stephen Tobolowsky, sundance, The Primary Instinct

Q&A: THE PROCESS BEHIND ‘PROCESS’

Written by DIG STAFF Posted January 29, 2015 Filed Under: A+E, Books

"It turns out that I’m super-regimented in the face of a serious deadline like this one, even though the hysteria and panic linger close to the surface."

Filed Under: A+E, Books Tagged With: Amazon, Boston, Cambridge, David Foster Wallace, DFW writing habits, Franzen, Infinite Jest, Process, Rugrats, Sarah Stodola, The Broom of the System, The Pale King, writing, writing process

EXCERPT: THE WRITING LIFE OF DAVID FOSTER WALLACE

Written by DIG STAFF Posted January 29, 2015 Filed Under: Books, FEATURES, Non-fiction

Part of a draft of The Pale King was written in a notebook with a character from the animated TV series Rugrats on the cover, another in one featuring a photo of kittens.

Filed Under: Books, FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: Amazon, Boston, Cambridge, David Foster Wallace, DFW writing habits, Franzen, Infinite Jest, Process, Rugrats, Sarah Stodola, The Broom of the System, The Pale King, writing, writing process

A WRITER USED TO LIVE HERE

Written by DAN SHEWAN Posted October 9, 2014 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

How Boston's new corporate-backed Literary District probably won't do a damn thing for hub writers

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: “Poe Returning to Boston”, 66 Charles Street, A Christmas Carol, Ann Bauer, Back Bay, Beacon Hill, Benjamin Samuel, Boston Literary Cultural District, Dan Currie, David Foster Wallace, Edgar Allan Poe Foundation of Boston, Eve Bridburg, Grub Street, Hollis Gillespie, Infinite Jest, Larry Lindner, Laura Van Den Berg, Massachusetts Cultural Council, steve almond, Tremont Temple

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