New David Foster Wallace interview, translated from German.

[T]he first part of [Oblivion], the roughly eighty pages of Mister Squishy, took me about four months. I write a lot by hand, draft by draft, and only later do I start to type it all. And after the like tenth draft I'm only thinking about the single lines and how they sound.

No wonder he hasn't followed up Infinite Jest with a third novel. (thx, nm)