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Nothing’s too small.’ From time to time, David Foster Wallace consented to being filmed. Our Web Scout has tracked down the best of DFW on YouTube, embedding a few videos and linking to others.
David Foster Wallace, 46, a writer known for his literary pyrotechnics, postmodern playfulness and impatience with traditional narrative forms, was found dead Sept. 12 in his Claremont, Calif ...
David Foster Wallace, the ‘Infinite Jest’ author who died on Sept. 12, is the subject of an extensive feature in the Oct. 30 issue of Rolling Stone (Issue No. 1064, with Barack Obama on the ...
Jon Baskin on the “Infinite Jest” author David Foster Wallace’s late works, such as “The Pale King” and “Something to Do with Paying Attention,” and the high moral purpose these ...
When David Foster Wallace committed suicide in September, he left behind roughly one-third of a manuscript that, apparently, will see the light of day by 2010 through Wallace’s publisher, Little ...
The L.A. Times’ Susan Salter Reynolds was there. ‘Tell me a story about how things will get better,’ David Foster Wallace asked his friend Jonathan Franzen last summer.