Perhaps no recent figure dealt with this problem more explicitly than David Foster Wallace. One of his central artistic projects remains a vital question for artists today: How does art progress ...

Before David Foster Wallace died by suicide at his California home, in 2008, he left a pile of papers, spiral notebooks, three-ring binders, and floppy disks on a table in his garage. The ...

On Feb. 7, 1972, when David Foster Wallace was 9 years old ... that the activity of art is based"—Wallace underlines it emphatically, adding "Art as Empathy" in the margin (while the 9-year ...

David Foster Wallace’s posthumous career — Wallace ... the sport but the experience of caring deeply about it. The main draw of “Both Flesh and Not” is the inclusion of Wallace’s famous ...

James Santel writes of novelist David Foster Wallace: Wallace’s writing did ... but also in the art form at which he was so obviously gifted, an art form in many ways predicated on sociability.

David Foster Wallace—the experimental novelist who grew ... the importance of pairing realistic details with experimental art. (Max dispatches the film in a sentence, one of several times ...

David Foster Wallace, who hanged himself with a belt nearly three years ago, has spent life after death drawing parade crowds on a fast path to beatification. Since Wallace’s suicide at 46 ...

Jessica Hagy beautifully illustrates them here. What David Foster Wallace’s Widow, Karen Green, Teaches Us About Art and Grief Karen Green's Bough Down is a hauntingly beautiful, mixed media ...