In Person: David Foster Wallace

"...so you don't have to be nervous for me," David Foster Wallace explains. "I'm nervous enough for all of..."

March 7, 1997 Books Feature

David Foster Wallace: The Last Interview

Melville House issues a collection worth collecting

"...pity is that none of us will ever be David Foster Wallace again...."

Dec. 26, 2012 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Harry Ransom Center + David Foster Wallace = <3 4EVER

UT's Harry Ransom Center acquires Infinite Jest author's archive

"...they say on that cultural substrate called television that Wallace, in essays and fictions and conversations, so deeply and..."

March 9, 2010 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

How Literature Saved David Shields' Life

The author of 'Reality Hunger' dodges those ol' bullets of anomie

"...David Shields, because he didn't kill himself before he finished..."

Feb. 4, 2013 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The End of the Tour

Fictional but satisfying portrayal of a David Foster Wallace interview by a Rolling Stone reporter

"...In 1996, David Foster Wallace published his masterwork Infinite Jest, which launched..."

Aug. 14, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The ‘Infinite’ Arm of DFW

A new Decemberists’ video pays homage to Infinite Jest

"...been hunching the shoulders and slunking in shadows since David Foster Wallace’s death in 2008. Casual readership of his..."

Aug. 22, 2011 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Brief Interviews With Hideous Men

John Krasinski makes his directorial debut with this screen adaptation of David Foster Wallace's stories.

"...not be, coming from the pen of the late David Foster Wallace, a masterful writer given to great pile-ons..."

Nov. 13, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

This Bubblegum Is Packed With Chewy, Fucked-Up Flavor

Fantastic new novel deeply reimagines our world for better and worse

"..."What if David Foster Wallace wrote Gremlins?" begins the press release from..."

April 20, 2020 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

What To Do After SXSW

David Foster Wallace. HRC Symposium. What else do you need to know?

"...So, after all that, what do we think of David Foster Wallace now? Wait, did I just imitate, albeit..."

Jan. 12, 2012 Books Post by Cindy Widner

Howl, Fantods, Howl.

The late, great David Foster Wallace's work gets an Austintatious celebration as Infinite Summer more or less reaches its climax.

"...even if you've only skimmed a story in which David Foster Wallace allows his supra-narrator characters to get a..."

Sept. 16, 2009 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Recommended at Texas Book Festival

Capsule reviews and panel info

"...Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallaceby D.T. Max Viking, 368 pp., $27.95..."

Oct. 26, 2012 Books Feature

Austin Film Society Spotlights Ethan Hawke

Richard Linklater chats with Hawke on his illustrious career

"...slight detour when he shared a story about author David Foster Wallace. He went to a reading of Infinite..."

Feb. 23, 2016 Screens Post by Neha Aziz

Romance in Rewrite

An extended conversation with Jeffrey Eugenides

"...resemblances of a character in The Marriage Plot to David Foster Wallace, and an effort in the media to..."

Oct. 28, 2011 Books Feature by Cindy Widner

Summer Reading

Brief Interviews With Hideous Men

"...David Foster Wallace Little, Brown and Company, $24 hard..."

June 4, 1999 Books Review

Royal Jest

Does Wes Anderson's new film, The Royal Tenenbaums, seem familiar? Why not ask David Foster Wallace?

"...Longhorn, Owen Wilson). But could the real influence be David Foster Wallace's sprawling, 1,079-page novel Infinite Jest? Where the..."

Dec. 28, 2001 Screens Feature by Sidney Moody

Bedside Manner: Sharing Shelf Space

My parents' Kindle library and me

"...library, including Margaret Atwood’s The Heart Goes Last and David Nicholls’ A Question of Attraction. It adds a weird/fun..."

June 22, 2016 Arts Post by Kimberley Jones

Changing of the Guard at the Ransom Center

Stephen Enniss steps up to take Thomas Staley's post

"...director in 1988 – including Norman Mailer, Don DeLillo, David Foster Wallace, David Mamet, and J.M. Coetzee in the..."

April 8, 2013 Books Post by Monica Riese

Culture Unbound Book Series

HRC archive authors highlighted

"...from its collection, from Denis Johnson's baby footprints to David Foster Wallace's journal scribblings...."

Feb. 16, 2011 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

The Regional Office Is Under Attack!

This adventure tale pulls elements from many corners of pop culture, but Manuel Gonzales’ writing chops make it wholly his own

"...that channels George Saunders or a less vocabularily intense David Foster Wallace while others could be lifted straight from..."

Dec. 23, 2016 Arts Review by Adrienne Martini

Mixed Metaphors

These craft cocktails are for the books

"...Book: Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace..."

June 17, 2016 Food Feature by Brandon Watson

Massive

St. Vincent's Annie Clark: Great Texan

"...Basically my life philosophy can be summed up by David Foster Wallace's Ken­yon College speech. What are you going..."

Oct. 10, 2014 Music Feature by Abby Johnston

UT Acquires McSweeney's Archive

Ransom Center will host first editions, correspondence, and more

"...Johnson, Jonathan Franzen, Nick Hornby, Joyce Carol Oates, and David Foster Wallace, whose personal archive is already a part..."

July 31, 2013 Books Post by Monica Riese

The Science Delusion

White takes aim at the bold targets of Richard Dawkins and Jonah Lehrer and their ilk

"...previous book, The Middle Mind, is praised, blurbwise, by David Foster Wallace – and who, as if it's insurance..."

May 17, 2013 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Somebody Up There Likes Bob Byington

The writer-director talks about his fifth feature

"...just read a book called The Last Interview with David Foster Wallace. I thought that was a good set..."

April 5, 2013 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

Chinese New Year in Austin: A Sort of Parallax View

Leng Wong and Cindy Soo tell it like it is

"...thing that reached the apotheosis of its form with David Foster Wallace's 'A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do..."

Feb. 18, 2013 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Malaise and Methodology

Ann Cvetkovich crafts a radical approach to considering depression

"...with even larger pockets of devotees (Barry, Cornel West, David Foster Wallace) is likely to pique even more interest...."

Jan. 18, 2013 Books Feature by Cindy Widner

Fantods Gonna Howl: Consider the Archive!

Harry Ransom Center previews its David Foster Wallace collection

"...It's a staged reading of work by David Foster Wallace! Selections from Infinite Jest are part of..."

Sept. 14, 2010 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Was It Good for You?

The year in books

"...grand scheme toward organic reanimation, has failed, and thus David Foster Wallace is still dead and will likely remain..."

Jan. 1, 2010 Books Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Playwright as Architect

In a conversation on art and craft, playwrights Dan Dietz and Wayne Alan Brenner discuss making the blueprints for and building a drama.

"...This is what I do. I'm not gonna be David Foster Wallace, I'm not gonna be James Joyce or..."

Oct. 26, 2001 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

And I Beheld an Infinite Map

David Foster Wallace's 'Infinite Jest': Mapped and Annotated

"...depicting the Organization of North American Nations (O.N.A.N.) from David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest...."

Dec. 10, 2012 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

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