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David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and university professor of English and creative writing. Wallace's 1996 novel Infinite Jest was cited by Time magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. [1]
Apr 30, 2024 · David Foster Wallace (born February 21, 1962, Ithaca, New York, U.S.—died September 12, 2008, Claremont, California) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and essayist whose dense works provide a dark, often satirical analysis of American culture.
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Sep 15, 2008 · David Foster Wallace, whose prodigiously observant, exuberantly plotted, grammatically and etymologically challenging, philosophically probing and culturally hyper-contemporary novels,...
Sep 2, 2012 · When writer David Foster Wallace committed suicide in 2008 at the age of 46, U.S. literature lost one of its most influential living writers. The definitive account of Wallace's life and what...
- You’re not the center of the universe. A huge percentage of the stuff that I tend to be automatically certain of is, it turns out, totally wrong and deluded.
- Don’t live life by default. If you’re automatically sure that you know what reality is, and you are operating on your default setting, then you, like me, probably won’t consider possibilities that aren’t annoying and miserable.
- You choose what you worship. This, I submit, is the freedom of a real education, of learning how to be well-adjusted. You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn’t.
- Real freedom is sacrifice. The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day.
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Sep 12, 2008 · David Foster Wallace. Born. in Ithaca, New York, The United States. February 21, 1962. Died. September 12, 2008. Website. http://www.davidfosterwallacebooks.com/ Genre. Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction, Short Stories. Influences. Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis, Don Delillo, John Barth, Fyodor Dostoy. ...more. edit data.
Jul 27, 2022 · David Foster Wallace’s Final Attempt to Make Art Moral. In a late work, Wallace captured the appeal—and the impossibility—of the literature that he hoped to create. By Jon Baskin. July 27,...
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