Life Lessons From a Depressed Person
This is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate LifeBy David Foster WallaceLittle, Brown, 137 pp. $14.99 Three years before he hanged himself at age 46...
View ArticleDueling Foster Wallace Bios: Two Hit Market, One Sells
Earlier this month, editors at publishing houses across New York received two separate book proposals for biographies of the late David Foster Wallace. One came from the journalist and critic D. T....
View ArticleDFW’s Papers Go to UT-Austin
The University of Texas at Austin has bought the David Foster Wallace archive. His papers will reside in the University's Harry Ransom Center, which blogged today about how the acquisition came to be....
View ArticleDavid Foster Wallace’s Papers Set to Go Public
The University of Texas at Austin is set to release David Foster Wallace's papers to the public. The Harry Ransom Center at UT Austin acquired Wallace's manuscripts, stories and essays as well as items...
View ArticleThomas Russo, the Secret Scribe of AIG
One of the most important people in finance was overlooking Central Park from his Fifth Avenue apartment, enjoying the Bach that his twin teenage daughters were playing on violin and speaking to the...
View ArticleDead Author Breeds Big Business: The David Foster Wallace Industry
When David Foster Wallace hanged himself with a black belt and his arms bound by duct tape on the patio of his home in Claremont, Calif., on Sept. 12, 2008, he had published a history of the concept of...
View ArticleNo Hard Feelings Between GQ and The New York Times Magazine
When Hugo Lindgren poached GQ story editor Joel Lovell for his revamp of The New York Times Magazine late last year, one bonus was that John Jeremiah Sullivan’s byline migrated alongside him....
View ArticleBetween Novels: Jonathan Franzen’s Essays Meditate on Birdwatching, Solitude,...
(Courtesy Farrar, Straus and Giroux) In his 2008 essay “The Chinese Puffin,” reprinted in his second essay collection, Farther Away (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 336 pages, $26.00), Jonathan Franzen...
View ArticleGiving Up the Ghost: A New Biography Gives a Sobering View of David Foster...
After David Foster Wallace’s death, once the dust settled on the extraordinary eulogies by Zadie Smith, John Jeremiah Sullivan, David Lipsky and many others who stood in awe before their titanic...
View ArticleTo Do Wednesday: David’s Domain
With a new book of essays out—and every magazine writer in the city aping his trademark verbosity more than ever—the departed nonfiction writer and novelist David Foster Wallace is experiencing a...
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