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Any accounts of what DFW was like as a professor?

I've seen a few of his syllabuses online (Ransom Collection ...
Hairraiser bearded point partner
  11/08/15
The movie made it sounds like his students loved him. Just a...
Kink-friendly Dysfunction
  11/08/15
Do you think he changed when he moved from teaching at Illin...
Hairraiser bearded point partner
  11/08/15
I think I remember reading somewhere that he didn't think mu...
nudist heaven
  11/08/15
Catching Rape vibes off this bro. https://en.wikipedia.o...
Pink business firm becky
  11/08/15
Yeah the movie gave off that impression too that he became w...
Kink-friendly Dysfunction
  11/08/15
lol.
Pink business firm becky
  11/08/15
Also the movie made it seem like impressing women with his w...
Kink-friendly Dysfunction
  11/08/15
This bro sounds very xoxo.
Pink business firm becky
  11/08/15
You write from the heart or the glands.
frum stead roommate
  12/15/17
According to Franzen, when they were on a book tour together...
Indecent jewess sanctuary
  12/15/17
I know a writer who dated him.
rambunctious frozen incel pocket flask
  12/15/17
mods
histrionic locus
  12/15/17
check quora. there's a decent thread on this topic there.
Gold Organic Girlfriend
  11/08/15
Feeling he had endured the scorn of the Arizona professors, ...
nudist heaven
  11/08/15
180 blackboard anecdote
Hairraiser bearded point partner
  11/08/15
He sounds like a reasonable man. No wonder he killed himself...
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Provocative sound barrier
  12/15/17
"One day he put the words “pulchritudinous,” “miniscule...
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Date: November 8th, 2015 3:17 PM
Author: Hairraiser bearded point partner

I've seen a few of his syllabuses online (Ransom Collection @ UT) but haven't heard what his students thought about him.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3039181&forum_id=2#29138118)



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Date: November 8th, 2015 3:19 PM
Author: Kink-friendly Dysfunction

The movie made it sounds like his students loved him. Just a quirky down to earth type who encouraged them to write creatively. Who knows how accurate that is, but it sounds pretty credited since he was asked to speak at graduations and shit all the time

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3039181&forum_id=2#29138129)



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Date: November 8th, 2015 3:22 PM
Author: Hairraiser bearded point partner

Do you think he changed when he moved from teaching at Illinois STTTAte to Pomona?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3039181&forum_id=2#29138146)



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Date: November 8th, 2015 3:38 PM
Author: nudist heaven

I think I remember reading somewhere that he didn't think much of the caliber of students at ISU, but ultimately found the trust fund kids at Pomona to be more loathsome.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3039181&forum_id=2#29138201)



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Date: November 8th, 2015 3:23 PM
Author: Pink business firm becky

Catching Rape vibes off this bro.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Foster_Wallace

Wallace struggled with drug and alcohol addiction, depression, suicide attempts, institutionalization, and at times inappropriate sexual behavior. Wallace is reported to have slept with some of his female students while teaching at university and sometimes exhibited stalking-like obsessive behavior when enamored with a woman.[15]



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3039181&forum_id=2#29138155)



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Date: November 8th, 2015 3:25 PM
Author: Kink-friendly Dysfunction

Yeah the movie gave off that impression too that he became weirdly obsessed with girls, told off the Rolling Stones editor merely because he talked/flirted with his ex girlfriend ljl

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3039181&forum_id=2#29138159)



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Date: November 8th, 2015 3:26 PM
Author: Pink business firm becky

lol.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3039181&forum_id=2#29138164)



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Date: November 8th, 2015 3:26 PM
Author: Kink-friendly Dysfunction

Also the movie made it seem like impressing women with his writing was a huge motivation of his for writing. He liked all the attention and being able to fuck girls because of his notoriety. But because he's a pretty deep dood this also disturbed him that he liked it so much.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3039181&forum_id=2#29138163)



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Date: November 8th, 2015 3:26 PM
Author: Pink business firm becky

This bro sounds very xoxo.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3039181&forum_id=2#29138166)



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Date: December 15th, 2017 8:16 AM
Author: frum stead roommate

You write from the heart or the glands.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3039181&forum_id=2#34925585)



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Date: December 15th, 2017 8:22 AM
Author: Indecent jewess sanctuary

According to Franzen, when they were on a book tour together he would excitedly talk about the "audience pussy" he'd get at their next reading

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3039181&forum_id=2#34925597)



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Date: December 15th, 2017 8:24 AM
Author: rambunctious frozen incel pocket flask

I know a writer who dated him.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3039181&forum_id=2#34925601)



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Date: December 15th, 2017 9:06 AM
Author: histrionic locus

mods

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3039181&forum_id=2#34925728)



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Date: November 8th, 2015 3:26 PM
Author: Gold Organic Girlfriend

check quora. there's a decent thread on this topic there.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3039181&forum_id=2#29138165)



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Date: November 8th, 2015 3:29 PM
Author: nudist heaven

Feeling he had endured the scorn of the Arizona professors, Wallace made sure his comments were supportive and the tone of the class positive. He did not want to replicate the discouraging classroom atmosphere he had just left. He cautioned the students, as one remembers, not to “tap dance in cleats” on one another’s stories. His syllabus was conventional, meant to teach the basic tools of writing: character, dialogue, and plot. He gave his students Eudora Welty’s “Why I Live at the P.O.” to illustrate the unreliable narrator and Lee K. Abbott’s “Living Alone in Iota” to showcase voice. “Just because it really happened, doesn’t make it good fiction,” he would remind them. He had the ability to shift gears in this way—to go from the pyrotechnics of writing “Westward” to teaching the rudiments of fiction; in fact, the simpler the teaching, the happier it made him. He did not go to class for challenges, personal or intellectual, he went to find certainties of the sort that eluded him in his own writing. Every meeting started with a grammar lesson—the difference between “between” and “among” or “further” and “farther.” “I’m a grammar Nazi,” he liked to tell his students. One day he put the words “pulchritudinous,” “miniscule,” “big,” and “misspelled” on the blackboard. He asked his students what the four words had in common, and, when no one knew, happily pointed out that the appearance of each was the opposite of its meaning: “pulchritudinous” was ugly, “miniscule” was big, “big” was small, and “misspelled” was spelled correctly. The students had rarely seen him so happy.

To their eyes, the twenty-five-year-old Wallace was a mystery. He came to class in his Arizona bandana (some thought it was to keep his hair from falling out), Timberland boots, and plaid shirts, cursed, and took frequent smoking breaks.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3039181&forum_id=2#29138173)



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Date: November 8th, 2015 3:38 PM
Author: Hairraiser bearded point partner

180 blackboard anecdote

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3039181&forum_id=2#29138198)



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Date: December 14th, 2017 11:45 PM
Author: exciting rigor gaming laptop

He sounds like a reasonable man. No wonder he killed himself- we live in an unreasonable world.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3039181&forum_id=2#34924014)



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Date: December 15th, 2017 1:10 AM
Author: Provocative sound barrier



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Date: December 15th, 2017 12:57 AM
Author: at-the-ready talented hominid

"One day he put the words “pulchritudinous,” “miniscule,” “big,” and “misspelled” on the blackboard. He asked his students what the four words had in common, and, when no one knew, happily pointed out that the appearance of each was the opposite of its meaning: “pulchritudinous” was ugly, “miniscule” was big, “big” was small, and “misspelled” was spelled correctly."

180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3039181&forum_id=2#34924511)



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Date: December 15th, 2017 8:30 AM
Author: Pungent Spruce Legend Temple



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