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Feb 28, 2009 · Illustration by Philip Burke. The writer David Foster Wallace committed suicide on September 12th of last year. His wife, Karen Green, came home to find that he had hanged himself on the patio of ...
Feb 1, 2016 · David Foster Wallace understood the paradox of attempting to write fiction that spoke to posterity and a contemporary audience simultaneously, with equal force. In an essay written while he was ...
Sep 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 also a piercingly ...
David Foster Wallace‘s 2005 commencement speech to the graduating class at Kenyon College is a timeless trove of wisdom — right up there with Hunter Thompson on finding your purpose. The speech was made into a thin book titled This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life .
Infinite Jest is a 1996 novel by American writer David Foster Wallace. Categorized as an encyclopedic novel , [1] Infinite Jest is featured in Time magazine's list of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005.
Sep 19, 2008 · This Is Water. By Jenna Krajeski. September 19, 2008. In 2005, David Foster Wallace addressed the graduating class at Kenyon College with a speech that is now one of his most read pieces. In it ...
Sep 20, 2019 · In the wake of his tragic suicide, his friends and family reveal the lifelong struggle of a beautiful mind. David Foster Wallace, an author, at The Strand bookstore in New York, Jan. 11, 2006 ...
