Little Brown, 1997. — 353 p. In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean luxury cruiseliner — David Foster Wallace brings to nonfiction the same curiosity, hilarity, and...
Federer both flesh and not. Fictional futures and the conspicuously young. The empty plenum: David Markson’s Wittgenstein’s mistress. Mr. Cogito. Democracy and commerce at the U.S. Open. Back in new fire. The (as it were) seminal importance of terminator 2. The nature of the fun. Overlooked: five direly underappreciated U.S. Novels 1960. Rhetoric and the math melodrama. The...
Federer both flesh and not. Fictional futures and the conspicuously young. The empty plenum: David Markson’s Wittgenstein’s mistress. Mr. Cogito. Democracy and commerce at the U.S. Open. Back in new fire. The (as it were) seminal importance of terminator 2. The nature of the fun. Overlooked: five direly underappreciated U.S. Novels 1960. Rhetoric and the math melodrama. The...
Federer both flesh and not. Fictional futures and the conspicuously young. The empty plenum: David Markson’s Wittgenstein’s mistress. Mr. Cogito. Democracy and commerce at the U.S. Open. Back in new fire. The (as it were) seminal importance of terminator 2. The nature of the fun. Overlooked: five direly underappreciated U.S. Novels 1960. Rhetoric and the math melodrama. The...
Federer both flesh and not. Fictional futures and the conspicuously young. The empty plenum: David Markson’s Wittgenstein’s mistress. Mr. Cogito. Democracy and commerce at the U.S. Open. Back in new fire. The (as it were) seminal importance of terminator 2. The nature of the fun. Overlooked: five direly underappreciated U.S. Novels 1960. Rhetoric and the math melodrama. The...
Little Brown, 2006. — 343 p. Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the three-ring circus of a vicious presidential race,...
Columbia, 2011. — 252 p. In 1962, the philosopher Richard Taylor used six commonly accepted presuppositions to imply that human beings have no control over the future. David Foster Wallace not only took issue with Taylor's method, which, according to him, scrambled the relations of logic, language, and the physical world, but also noted a semantic trick at the heart of Taylor's...
A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the pursuit of happiness in America. Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects...
A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the pursuit of happiness in America. Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects...
Melville House, 2012. — 128 p. In intimate and eloquent interviews, including the last he gave before his suicide, the writer hailed by A.O. Scott of the New York Times as “the best mind of his generation” considers the state of modern America, entertainment and discipline, adulthood, literature, and his own inimitable writing style. In addition to Wallace’s last interview, the...
NY: Little Brown and company, 2014. — 240 p. A "long-time rabid fan of tennis," and a regionally ranked tennis player in his youth, David Foster Wallace wrote about the game like no one else. ON TENNIS presents David Foster Wallace's five essays on the sport, published between 1990 and 2006, and hailed as some of the greatest and most innovative sports writing of our time. This...
Little, Brown and Company, 2009. — 137 p. Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. The speech is reprinted for the first time in book form in THIS IS WATER. How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously? How do we get ourselves out of the...
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