When David Foster Wallace’s magnificent 1,079-page novel landed in bookstores with a resounding thunk in February 1996, the author wasn’t a household name. He’d written one novel and a highly ...

Like Dostoyevsky, Wallace also views writing as a task and an ethical endeavor, a search for the meaning of life ...

David Foster Wallace fans: Put down your copy of D.T. Max’s newly released biography of the writer, Every Love Story Is A Ghost Story and click immediately on Infinite Atlas. Non-fans, stop whatever ...

We’ve all got books on our shelves that we know are amazing, but we just haven’t quite, um… bothered to read. There’s no shame in admitting David Foster Wallace’s doorstop of a novel Infinite Jest is ...

Commentary: I put off reading David Foster Wallace's famously encyclopedic book for two decades. Finally digging in was the best and worst thing I did this year. I started with CNET reviewing laptops ...

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David Foster Wallace, the late author of ‘Infinite Jest’, a book that’s many contradictory things: self-aware and indulgent, thoughtful and ostentatious, sentimental and nasty, deeply personal and ...

For many, “Infinite Jest” is a kind of sacred work. A magnum opus that can challenge readers simply to finish. The “defining work of the 1990s.” One of the greatest books of all time. Or something to ...

When David Foster Wallace’s magnificent 1,079-page novel landed in bookstores with a resounding thunk in February 1996, the author wasn’t a household name. He’d written one novel and a highly ...

In 1990, David Foster Wallace, only 28, had already lived a chaotic life: he'd been a literary star, a teacher, and a depressive, had attempted to take his own life and then found his way into drug ...