David. Fucking. Foster. Wallace? It’s true ... of sweat and cigarettes stamped into the sprawling carpets of the Las Vegas ballrooms: these women are props, bait for the throngs of leering ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Pale King is a work that, as expected, only further proves David Foster Wallace's genius. Most of the time the unfinished novel (published posthumously after Wallace's 2008 death) is a ...

David Foster Wallace, the novelist, essayist and humorist best known for his 1996 novel “Infinite Jest,” was found dead Friday night at his home in Claremont, according to the Claremont Police ...

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 ...

On Tuesday, David Foster Wallace would have turned 50 years old, an occasion that has even inspired conferences. After his death and canonization into what looks like an entire field of academic ...

When David Foster Wallace committed suicide in 2008, it was clear he had been profoundly depressed. But the first major biography of the writer, D.T. Max’s Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story ...

In 1996, shortly after the publication of “Infinite Jest,” David Foster Wallace took courses at Harvard University on accounting and federal tax law. He had an idea for a new novel ...

One who seemed to know life's secret was David Foster Wallace, whose suicide, oddly enough, only enhanced his stature as a sage. Whether or not he was the most important American writer of his era ...