A Requiem for DFW

By Matthew Korfhage
these very pages
Willamette Week
McSweeney's
Ruslana Korshunova
White Teeth
Daily Telegraph
The Girl with Curious Hair
Infinite Jest
commencement address
"But at the end of the white board, the edge, where you'll come down with your weight to make it send you off, there are two areas of darkness. Two flat shadows in the broad light. Two vague black ovals. The end of the board has two dirty spots.
They are from all the people who've gone before you."

WWeek 2015

Matthew Korfhage

Matthew Korfhage

Matthew Korfhage has lived in St. Louis, Chicago, Munich and Bordeaux, but comes from Portland, where he makes guides to the city and writes about food, booze and books. He likes the Oxford comma but can't use it in the newspaper.

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