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Sep 20, 2019 · The Lost Years and Last Days of David Foster Wallace. He was the greatest writer of his generation — and also its most tormented. In the wake of his tragic suicide, his friends and family reveal...
Apr 19, 2022 · Author David Foster Wallace, who died in 2008. Alamy. Normal text size. Larger text size. Very large text size. It was a dark day for literature when David Foster Wallace took his life in 2008, at the age of 46. Wallace was hands-down the most talented American writer of his generation.
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Apr 9, 2011 · Tim Adams. David Foster Wallace, the most gifted and original American novelist of his generation, took his own life in 2008. His widow, the artist Karen Green, talks of the struggle to deal her...
David Foster Wallace's remarkable 2005 commencement speech, This is Water, is a timeless trove of wisdom for living a meaningful life. Here is a full transcript along with audio.
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May 25, 2015 · David Foster Wallace was a maximalist. His masterpiece, Infinite Jest, is a 1,000-page, polyphonic epic about addiction and obsession in millennial America. His journalism and essays, about ...
Sep 4, 2012 · Page-Turner. David Foster Wallace in Recovery: An Excerpt From the New Biography. By D. T. Max. September 4, 2012. At the end of 1989, David Foster Wallace was admitted to McLean Hospital, the...
Sep 17, 2008 · September 17, 2008. David Foster Wallace, who died on September 12th, at the age of forty-six, was in many ways a writer of his time. “Infinite Jest,” a 1,079-page literary manifesto that was ...