Best Foreign Fiction from Jessa Crispin

In addition to our own annotation of David Foster Wallace‘s work today, Electric Literature‘s blog has a great little piece of literary history up in the form of a postcard he wrote to Don DeLillo.

“Armand’s characters all seem both hugely present and in life’s juice and simultaneously dead, as if rent of brain, nerves, chest, stomach, intestines … Without gods and devils these patients feel that only fire can save them, existing eternally unless burned away.” Australian novelist Louis Armand’s newest, Abacus, is reviewed by Richard Marshall at 3:AM Magazine.

This week in book-related infographics: Waterstones has put together an illustrated formula for the ultimate bestseller, “a thriller tale of crime, bondage and wizardry.”