David Foster Wallace’s fiction is not a user’s guide or a set of instructions for how to live. It invites thinking, feeling, and seeing the world more clearly.

David Foster Wallace's novella 'Something to Do With Paying Attention' features two conversion narratives, a "fearful Jesuit" and "the death of childhood's limitless possibility." ...

When he was on song, Wallace produced sentences that made his most gifted contemporaries feel like quitting on the spot. Where does a new reader start when it comes to David Foster Wallace?

It is as strange as it sounds, but Wallace embraces strangeness gracefully. In the mess of gaudy and sometimes grotesque language there is an undeniable humanity — Wallace touches on just about every ...

Infinite Jerk Adrienne Miller’s memoir of her relationship with David Foster Wallace is part of an emerging genre of women coming of age via an older, powerful man.

Even though the letters were from David Foster Wallace, Susan says that the letters as physical objects didn’t seem particularly special at the beginning. When the correspondence started, they’d been ...

The problem, according to Foster Wallace, is that video calling made people self conscious about how engaged each side was in the conversation, fundamentally changing the social implications of a ...

A story that has been treated—stop me if this sounds familiar—largely as a complication to another story. In this case, the story of the romantically unruly genius of one David Foster Wallace.

If you've talked to me for more than five minutes, you probably know that I'm a huge fan of author and essayist David Foster Wallace. In my opinion, he's one of the most fascinating writers and ...

David Foster Wallace introduces you to the IRS The ultra-meta foreword in 'The Pale King' is set on March 24, 2005.

Ignatius ended his days behind the desk of the Jesuit curia in Rome; Wallace ended his by his own hand at the age of 46. Ignatius was canonized in 1622.