I just received a copy of the latest Sonora Review, with fiction by Etgar Keret, interviews with Ben Marcus and Junot Díaz, and a 100-page tribute to David Foster Wallace, the latter being a large part of my reason for buying it (the issue). The tribute has essays on Wallace's work by Sven Birkerts and others, recollections by Dave Eggers and Jonathan Franzen, and an interview with his (Wallace's) longtime editor Michael Pietsch. The issue also includes some striking artwork by Karen Green, which perhaps unsurprisingly incorporates a good deal of text. A few of the contributors admit to not having known Wallace that well personally, though everyone in the issue has something interesting to say, some tidbits to offer, some theories to propound. One thing I was glad to find out: David Foster Wallace "said he thought Flaming Lips' Transmissions From the Satellite Heart was the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band of our generation." As Glenn Kenny says in his essay, I guess I'll "give it a few more listens, then."*update: All of the fiction I've read in this issue so far (including Wallace's "Solomon Silverfish," and pieces by Kellie Wells, Ryan Call, and Etgar Keret) is SOLID.
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