David Foster ... to quote Infinite Jest, a “man who was very quiet and broken-seeming and fatherly and strange. There was this kind of broken authority about him”. Wallace’s essay “E ...

Lipsky, award-winning author of books about West Point and a road trip with David Foster Wallace, brings his wide ... Give them my book. I quote John Tyndall: “It is as fatal as it is cowardly ...

The murders drew national attention to the church, which, after a century of being viewed as a sort of "outsider religion" plagued ... optimism (as David Foster Wallace once wrote, "There's ...

He quotes Cynthia Ozick judging that “a genuine ... those extra years allow Lopate to include Ralph Ellison, Vivian Gornick and David Foster Wallace, to name just three. It’s hard to begrudge ...

David Foster Wallace, who took his own life in 2008 ... person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and ...