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Jonathan Franzen and David Foster Wallace, the two most important American writers of their era, both grew up in the Midwest. Franzen describes his childhood in Webster Groves, Missouri as having unfolded “in the middle of the middle [where] there was no
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The work and legacy of David Foster Wallace will be the subject of a panel discussion Saturday at Pomona College in Claremont. It's quite a lineup: biographer D.T. Max and critic Laura Miller have flown in to participate, and they'll be joined by writer
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In this book cover image released by Little, Brown and Company, "The Pale King," by David Foster Wallace, is shown. View Photo »
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Someone compared this author to David Foster Wallace an author I never could get a grasp on. So I think I will read this author, Mathew Sharpe and see what happens. Maybe I can get closer to Wallace. Or maybe that's not what I really want. Maybe I want an author I can get close to and maybe that author ...
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With a band name like Tennis, you might be forgiven for thinking there'd be more references to David Foster Wallace and Infinite Jest than the Decemberists music video for "Calamity Song". Alas all Ensfield Tennis Academy enthusiasts, there is no Eschato
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According to a story in The Atlantic I included in today’s Critical Linking, the Ransom Center at the University of Texas has started guessing which authors will have lasting historical import and then buying up their papers. Usually, libraries and archi
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Look At Me is a novel by Jennifer Egan about a model named Charlotte who drives her car into a ditch and wakes up with eighty titanium screws in her face. Dropped by her friends and dismissed by her agent, disfigured Charlotte makes a final effort to rev
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Someone compared this author to David Foster Wallace an author I never could get a grasp on. So I think I will read this author, Mathew Sharpe and see what happens. Maybe I can get closer to Wallace. Or maybe that's not what I really want. Maybe I want an author I can get close to and maybe that author ...
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Books discussed in this essay: The Legacy of David Foster Wallace: Critical and Creative Assessments, edited by Lee Konstantinou and Samuel Cohen Just about everyone who pays any attention at all to contemporary fiction knows two things about David Foste
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Greetings Cat Scratch Reader, P_Roach17 here from Bleeding Green Nation attempting to organize a SB Nation-wide mock draft. After a disappointing season for my Birds, and being less than thrilled with having to watch the Giants win the SB, i'm left with
About David Foster Wallace
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David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008) was an American author of novels, essays and short-stories, and a professor at Pomona College in Claremont, California. He was renowned for his 1996 novel Infinite Jest, which Time included in its All-Time 100 Greatest Novels list (covering the period 1923-2006). Full Article
