David Foster Wallace’s posthumous career — Wallace committed suicide in 2008 at the age of 46 — has produced nearly as many books as his live one did. In 2010, David Lipsky came out with ...

David Foster Wallace, who hanged himself with a belt nearly three years ago, ... Meanwhile, he started calling out this tendency in other art. Writing on the filmmaker David Lynch, ...

In 1990, David Foster Wallace, only 28, had already lived a chaotic life: he'd been a literary star, a teacher, and a depressive, had attempted to take his own life and then found his way into ...

David Foster Wallace—the experimental novelist who grew up in Illinois; who wrote Infinite Jest, which established him as the most influential author of his generation; and who committed suicide ...

When the news came that David Foster Wallace, only 46-years old, had hanged himself in his home in California, I opened his masterpiece, the 1996 novel "Infinite Jest," at random and happened to ...

Richard Brody on James Ponsoldt’s film “The End of the Tour,” an adaptation, with Jason Segel, of David Lipsky’s book about David Foster Wallace.

Feb. 21, 1962 - Sept. 12, 2008 David Foster Wallace used his prodigious gifts as a writer his manic, exuberant ... madness and substance abuse were often considered prerequisites for great art.

Feb. 21, 1962 - Sept. 12, 2008 David Foster Wallace used his prodigious gifts as a writer his manic, exuberant prose, his ferocious powers of observation, his ability to fuse avant-garde ...