The book was sold out, and the friendly clerk at the bookstore handed me Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace instead. I bought it, along with a couple of others, and perhaps three or four years ...

I had a specific occasion to do some reconsidering after reading a typically interesting and insightful essay by author/critic Patricia Lockwood on the work of the late David Foster Wallace ...

make jokes of profound issues.” -David Foster Wallace (Review of Joseph Frank’s Dostoevsky) “‘Irrelevant Chris’ is irrelevant only on the subject of himself?” -David Foster Wallace ...

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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It was a dark day for literature when David Foster Wallace took his life in 2008, at the age of 46. Wallace was hands-down the most ...

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 ...

Pasadena, 2005. Dunn sees a flyer for a workshop on teaching writing. There are three names on the list of speakers, including David Foster Wallace. Why did such a famous author appear at a workshop ...