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"A Sometimes Funny Book Supposedly about Infinity: A Review of Everything and More". Notices of the AMS 51.6 (2004), 632–638. Jacobs, Tim. "The Fight: Considering David Foster Wallace Considering You". Rain Taxi Review of Books. Online Edition, Part Two. Winter 2009. Jacobs, Timothy. "David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest."
Oblivion is Wallace's third and last short story collection and was listed as a 2004 New York Times Notable Book of the Year. [1] In the stories, Wallace explores the nature of reality, dreams, trauma, and the "dynamics of consciousness." [2] The story "Good Old Neon" was included in The O. Henry Prize Stories 2002.
David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and university professor of English and creative writing. Wallace's 1996 novel Infinite Jest was cited by Time magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. [1]
In a 2022 review published by the Los Angeles Times, Jonathan Russel Clark writes that the novella "has the rhythm of waves on a beach as high tide approaches: forward movement before pulling back, all the while inching farther up the sand", [3] and "For all his virtuosity, Wallace specialized in erudite neurotics from Middle America who suffer ...
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men is a short story collection by American writer David Foster Wallace, first published in 1999 by Little, Brown.According to the papers in the David Foster Wallace Archive at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, [1] the book had an estimated gross sales of 28,000 hardcover copies during the first year of its publication.
Infinite Jest is a 1996 novel by American writer David Foster Wallace.Categorized as an encyclopedic novel, [1] Infinite Jest is featured in Time magazine's list of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005.
Yet, if one dug beneath Wallace’s rhetoric, it became clear he was wielding white supremacy to defend a tax structure that allowed white elites to take advantage of the very people Wallace ...
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments is a 1997 collection of nonfiction writing by David Foster Wallace.. In the title essay, originally published in Harper's as "Shipping Out", Wallace describes the excesses of his one-week trip in the Caribbean aboard the cruise ship MV Zenith, which he rechristens the Nadir.