Results for "Wallace, David Foster"

A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in AmericaSet 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 h... Read More about Infinite Jest

This celebrated collection of essays from the author of Infinite Jest is "brilliantly entertaining...Consider the Lobster proves once more why Wallace should be regarded as this generation's best comic writer" (Cleveland Plain Dealer).  Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have... Read More about Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays

These widely acclaimed essays from the author of Infinite Jest -- on television, tennis, cruise ships, and more -- established David Foster Wallace as one of the preeminent essayists of his generation.  In this exuberantly praised book -- a collection of seven pieces on subjects rangi... Read More about A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

David Foster Wallace’s last unfinished work, a wise and unexpected tour de force “using the IRS the way Borges used the library and Kafka used the law-courts building: as an analogy for the world.” —John Jeremiah Sullivan, GQWhen David Foster Wallace died in 2008, he left behind a vast unfinished no... Read More about Something to Do with Paying Attention

In this rare peak into the personal life of the author of numerous bestselling novels, gain an understanding of David Foster Wallace and how he became the man that he was. Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Keny... Read More about This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

The "breathtakingly brilliant" novel by the author of Infinite Jest (New York Times) is a deeply compelling and satisfying story, as hilarious and fearless and original as anything Wallace ever wrote. The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordina... Read More about The Pale King