David Foster Wallace’s novel, in all its immensity, became the subject of sanctification and then scorn. But the work rewards ...
On the 30th anniversary of “Infinite Jest,” a former assistant to his editor looks back on a complicated mind and ...
Like Cormac McCarthy, Wallace was a serious moralist with zero political vision: witness the cynical collapsing of Left and ...
Infinite Jest, the thousand-page novel by David Foster Wallace that turns 30 this month, to answer the question once and for all: Do we have to read this book?
Debunking the myth of the toxic ‘Infinite Jest bro’ - COMMENT: Thirty years after publication, David Foster Wallace’s 1996 ...
They include monolithic memoirs by Primo Levi and Nelson Mandela, seminal British fiction from the likes of Beryl Bainbridge and Iain Banks, and significant works of contemporary American literature ...
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CLAREMONT, Calif. — David Foster Wallace, the author best known for his 1996 novel Infinite Jest, was found dead in his home, according to police. He was 46. Wallace’s wife found her husband had ...
But because it's so long and dense and hipsterish, and was written by a man whose personal struggles have been grossly romanticized all the more following his 2008 suicide, Infinite Jest has also ...
In 2008, I found myself in Rome searching for The Savage Detectives by Chilean author Roberto Bolaño. The book was sold out, and the friendly clerk at the bookstore handed me Infinite Jest by David ...
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