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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jesse Eisenberg had no idea that the estate of David Foster Wallace objected to the production of his upcoming film about the late writer, “The End of the Tour,” but he’s certain that it’s ...

The work of David Foster Wallace's that most people have read is "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again," a reporting piece about his week aboard a Caribbean cruise ship. (It was originally ...

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.