With the nation's thirst for information regarding "Hipster Cop"—a.k.a. Community Affairs Detective Rick Lee—increasingly insatiable, we contacted him for an interview, hoping he'd shed some light on his sartorial choices and tell us whether he prefers Gummo or Trash Humpers. Sadly, Detective Lee turned down our interview request (he's probably holding out for The Believer) and referred us to the NYPD's press office, where inquiries go to die. But as luck would have it, we did find someone in the 1st Precinct with intimate knowledge of Detective Wes Anderson. Our source (call him/her "Deep Runoff") agreed to speak with us—but only on condition on anonymity, out of fear that Hipster Cop wouldn't let him borrow his copy of Infinite Jest. Here's what we found out about Inspector Dreamypants: more ›

The principal at the small Clinton School for Writers and Artists is in trouble for allegedly reciting David Foster Wallace's famous commencement speech during the school's graduation without attribution, the Daily News reports. In the music biz, that's considered "sampling," but in the stuffy academic community they call it "plagiarism." During Friday's commencement, Joseph Anderson quoted at length from the late great Wallace's address, which was originally given at Kenyon College in 2005 and made Time magazine's Top 10 Commencement Speeches list. But as every great writer will tell ya, if you're gonna steal, steal from the best! Unfortunately for Mr. Anderson, the DOE doesn't see it that way. more ›

David Foster Wallace, whose writing evoked comparisons to Pynchon and Borges, died on Friday. The LA Times reports his wife found that he hanged himself in their Pomona, CA home (he taught creative writing at Pomona College). LA Times book editor David Ulin, in NYC for a National Book Critics Circle Board meeting yesterday, said, "What was a party is now a wake. People were speechless and just blown away." Wallace wrote a number of books, but his tour-de-force was Infinite Jest, a 1,079-page novel that Jay McInerney, in the NY Times Book Review, called "something like a sleek Vonnegut chassis wrapped in layers of post-millennial Zola.” Here's a profile of Wallace that Frank Bruni wrote for the NY Times Magazine in 1996. more ›

READING: Here's something awesome to spice up your week - from Housing Works Used Book Cafe's website: "Jest Fest 06, a celebration of the 10th Anniversary of David Foster Wallace's INFINITE JEST. Join John Krasinski (The Office), Todd Hanson (The Onion), Lev Grossman (Time Magazine), and Laura Miller (Salon) in reading from and talking about the book. Audience participation strongly encouraged!" Nerdy goodness abounds! - Krissa Corbett Cavouras more ›

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