In a statement released Monday, the estate of David Foster Wallace came out against the movie “The End of the Tour,” currently in production. The film stars Jason Segel as Wallace on a road ...

This is FRESH AIR, I'm Terry Gross. The writer David Foster Wallace was suspicious of fame, other people's and his own, but he allowed Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky to spend five days ...

The first glimmer of this is a funny but unpersuasive piece on New York magazine’s The Cut called “David Foster Wallace, Beloved Author of Bros.” After describing Wallace’s mockery of the ...

A new film revisits a five-day interview that took place between writer David Foster Wallace and a reporter for Rolling Stone in 1996. Critic David Edelstein calls it a "very good movie.

On the most superficial level, "The End of the Tour" is about David Foster Wallace, who electrified the literary world in 1996 with the publication of his epic breakout novel "Infinite Jest," and ...