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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]
He joined The New York Times after the newspaper strike of 1962–63. During his career he covered both the New York Giants and New York Jets. He is the author of the book Yale’s Ironmen: A Story of Football and Lives in the Decade of the Depression and Beyond. [2] In 1986, he was given the Dick McCann Memorial Award from the Pro Football ...
Carvell Wallace (born October 20, 1974, in McKeesport, Pennsylvania) is a New York Times bestselling author, [1] writer, and podcaster. He is a regular contributor to Pitchfork, [2] MTV News, [3] the Huffington Post, [4] and Slate, [5] [6] and has written for The New York Times, [7] New York Magazine, [8] [9] GQ, [10] The Toast, [11] The Guardian, [12] The New Yorker, [13] Esquire, [14] Quartz ...
Oblivion: Stories (2004) is a collection of short fiction by the American writer David Foster Wallace. 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."
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.
David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) was an American author of novels, essays, and short stories. In addition to writing, Wallace was employed as a professor at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois, and Pomona College in Claremont, California.
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Wallace very positively reviews David Markson's experimental novel Wittgenstein's Mistress (1988). "Mr. Cogito" is a positive review of a book of poetry by Zbigniew Herbert. It is a short piece that appeared in Spin in 1994. "Democracy and Commerce at the U.S. Open" (1996) is a first-person journalistic essay on the 1995 U.S. Open.