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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...

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Dueling 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....

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DFW’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....

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David 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...

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Thomas 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...

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Dead 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...

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No 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....

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Between 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...

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Giving 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...

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To 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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