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The David Foster Wallace Reader is a compilation from one of the most original writers of our age, featuring selections of his brilliant fiction and nonfiction. For new readers, this is an accessible introduction to the pleasures of reading Wallace; for fans, a must-have best-of; and for teachers, an invaluable tool.
Sep 6, 2012 · Shortly after David Foster Wallace committed suicide in 2008, The New Yorker staff writer D.T. Max wrote what seemed like the definitive posthumous profile of the tormented and brilliant writer ...
Sep 12, 2012 · This Is Water: David Foster Wallace on Life. On September 12, 2008, David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962–September 12, 2008) was slain by depression, taking his own life and becoming a kind of patron-saint of the “tortured genius” myth of creativity. Just three years earlier, he stepped onto the podium at Kenyon College and delivered ...
Dec 21, 2010 · When the future novelist David Foster Wallace was about 14 years old, he asked his father, the University of Illinois philosophy professor James D. Wallace, to explain to him what philosophy is ...
Nov 16, 2018 · Electric Literature. E ighteen years ago, writer and translator Eduardo Lago sat down with David Foster Wallace for a discussion that ranged from pedagogy to tennis to the influence of the internet on literature. The interview remained unpublished until Lago, an award-winning Spanish novelist, critic, and translator who teaches at Sarah ...
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Apr 27, 2011 · Foster Wallace: An Ordinary Guy Who Couldn't Be. Late author David Foster Wallace's unfinished book The Pale King is the sequel to his 1996 novel, Infinite Jest . Writers love to grumble about the ...
