- 9/9/12 /
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Your Sunday Long Reads: Jay-Z, the Wachowskis, and Philip Roth’s Wikipedia Beef
Another reason to stay indoors.
David Foster Wallace
- 9/6/12 /
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Read an Interactive Infinite Jest Map
Based on David Foster Wallace's novel.
- 7/15/12 /
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Your Sunday Long Reads: One Direction, Reading Fifty Shades on the Subway, and Michael Keaton
Another excuse to stay indoors.
- 4/16/12 /
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No Pulitzer for You, Literature!
It's the first time since 1977 that the Pulitzer board has decided not to award a fiction prize.
- 10/20/11 /
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Read David Foster Wallace’s Threats to Harper’s Magazine
"I will find a way to harm you or cause you suffering."
- 10/8/11 /
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Did David Foster Wallace Fudge That Cruise Piece?
So said Franzen at 'The New Yorker' Festival.
- 9/30/11 /
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Jeffrey Eugenides Says Any David Foster Wallace Similarities in His New Novel Are Totally Coincidental
We remain skeptical.
- 8/22/11 /
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Parks and Rec Co-Creator Michael Schur Directed a Decemberists Video
He tells us all about his homage to his longtime obsession, David Foster Wallace's 'Infinite Jest.'
- 8/22/11 /
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Did David Foster Wallace Inspire Bloggers’ ‘Worst Tendencies’?
"Wallace’s moves have been adopted and further slackerized" by the Internet, apparently.
- 7/20/11 /
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There’s a David Foster Wallace Character in Jeffrey Eugenides’ New Novel
Meet Leonard Bankhead, a brilliant young man who wears bandannas, dips tobacco, and has a history of hospitalizations.
- 6/6/11 /
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Check Out Poor Yorick Entertainment, a Collection of Infinite Jest–Inspired Artwork
Fictional movie posters, fake magazine profiles, and more.
- 4/14/11 /
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Read an Elementary School Poem by David Foster Wallace
It's about his mom.
- 4/13/11 /
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Karen Green Talks About Her Husband, David Foster Wallace
"It all turns him into a celebrity writer dude."
- 4/11/11 /
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Jonathan Franzen on David Foster Wallace
"It was still hard not to feel wounded by the part of him that had chose the adulation of strangers over the love of the people closest to him."
- 4/5/11 /
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David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King Gets Thoughtful, Glowing Reviews
It's not perfect, but in places it comes close.
- 3/14/11 /
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David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King Gets Its First Review
"It's sloppy at times, inconsistent in others, baggy here, too-lean there ... [but] the book is unmistakably a David Foster Wallace affair."
- 3/8/11 /
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Read a Line-by-Line Breakdown of David Foster Wallace’s ‘Backbone’ Edits
File it away for your next long read.
- 3/1/11 /
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Read a New David Foster Wallace Story, ‘Backbone’
Conveniently, it's all online.
- 11/19/10 /
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Read a Collection of Unpublished Infinite Jest Excerpts
Plus a number of notes and essays from David Foster Wallace's archives.
- 9/15/10 /
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David Foster Wallace Novel Out April 15
Tax day.
- 7/1/10 /
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Hear Unreleased David Foster Wallace Audio
Bittersweet.
- 6/8/10 /
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David Foster Wallace Predicted You Will Get Tired of iPhone 4’s New Functionality
The video phone: just a fad?
- 5/27/10 /
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David Foster Wallace’s Undergraduate Thesis Will Be a Book
About free will.
- 5/19/10 /
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Vulture Reading Room Wraps Up on David Foster Wallace
Says Sam Anderson: "I could go on forever, but I'll stop there. In conclusion: It’s all tremendously complicated."
- 5/11/10 /
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Vulture Reading Room Discusses David Foster Wallace's 'Nixon Tapes'
On "Wallace’s fullest elaboration of what he saw as the key question of modern existence."