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David Foster Wallace Defines The Word Despair
From David Foster Wallace’s essay “A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again,” collected in the book of the same name: The word’s overused and banalified now, despair, but it’s a serious word, and I’m...
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Everybody Hates a Tourist (I Sort of Review the Audiobook of David Foster...
I recently listened to Hachette’s new audiobook version of David Foster Wallace’s essay collection A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, a collection of essays that I’ve read and enjoyed several...
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Chris Ware on DFW’s Novel The Pale King
Crippled Robot painting by Chris Ware Cartoonist/graphic novelist/chronicler of shame and despair Chris Ware wrote about his favorite books for Foyles bookstore. The list includes Ulysses, Moby-Dick,...
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I Try to Riff on Both Flesh and Not, DFW’s New Essay Collection, Which I...
1. Today, I picked up Both Flesh and Not, a collection of David Foster Wallace essays and short pieces. I specifically ordered this book from my local bookstore (I didn’t get a review copy), and I...
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A Seven Point Riff on David Foster Wallace’s David Markson Essay
1. Like many David Foster Wallace fans, I’d already read many of the essays collected in the posthumous Both Flesh and Not. I hadn’t read “The Empty Plenum: David Markson’s Wittgenstein’s Mistress”...
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“Every lengthy, literary novel that has been published since Infinite Jest...
When Infinite Jest was published in 1996 and David Foster Wallace set the literary world on fire, he was the epitome of cool. He looked like Ethan Hawke and Kurt Cobain’s brother—and he was authentic,...
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