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'''David Foster Wallace''' (February 21, 1962 &ndash; September 12, 2008) was an American author of novels, essays and short-stories, and a professor at Pomona College in Claremont, California. He was known for his 1996 novel ''[[Infinite Jest]]'',<ref name="LAT1">{{cite web
  | title = Writer David Foster Wallace found dead 
  | publisher = The Los Angeles Times, Claire Noland and Joel Rubin, September 14, 2008 
  | url = http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-wallace14-2008sep14,0,7461856.story}}</ref><ref name="wsj1">{{cite web
  | title = Writer David Foster Wallace Dies
  | publisher = The Wall Street Journal, AP, September 14, 2008 
  | url = http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122136457102232845.html?mod=yahoo_buzz}}</ref> which ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_(magazine) Time]'' included in its All-Time 100 Greatest Novels list (covering the period 1923-2006). <ref name="TIME">{{Citation
  | last = Grossman
  | first = Lev
  | author-link = Lev Grossman
  | last2 = Lacayo
  | first2 = Richard
  | author2-link = 
  | title = TIME's Critics pick the 100 Best Novels, 1923 to present
  | newspaper = TIME
  | pages = 
  | year = 2005
  | date = 
  | url = http://www.time.com/time/2005/100books/the_complete_list.html}}</ref>  

''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' book editor David Ulin called Wallace "one of the most influential and innovative writers of the last 20 years."<ref name="LAT1"/>

==Biography==
===Personal===
Wallace was born in 1962 in Ithaca, New York to James Donald Wallace and Sally Foster Wallace. As a young child, Wallace and his family lived in Champaign, Illinois. In fourth grade, Wallace moved to Urbana and attended Yankee Ridge school. As an adolescent, Wallace was a regionally ranked player.

He attended his father's alma mater, Amherst College, and majored in English and philosophy, with a focus on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/modal_logic logic] and mathematics. His philosophy senior thesis on modal logic, titled ''Richard Taylor's 'Fatalism' and the Semantics of Physical Modality'' (described in James Ryerson's 2008 New York Times essay "Consider the Philosopher"<ref name="consider">{{cite web
  | title = Consider the Philosopher
  | publisher = The New York Times, James Ryerson, 12,12, 2008
  | url = http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/magazine/14wwln-Wallace-t.html?_r=2&ref=magazine}}</ref>) was awarded the Gail Kennedy Memorial Prize<ref>[https://cms.amherst.edu/academiclife/departments/philosophy/alumni Our Alumni | Amherst College<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>.  His other senior thesis, in English, would later become his first novel.<ref>[https://www.amherst.edu/aboutamherst/news/memoriam/node/65728 In Memoriam: David Foster Wallace '85 | Amherst College]</ref> Wallace graduated with ''summa cum laude'' honors for both theses in 1985 and next pursued a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of Arizona, earning that degree in 1987.

===Family===
His father, James Wallace, having finished his graduate course work in philosophy at Cornell University, accepted a teaching job at the [[University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]] in the fall of 1962.  He received his Ph.D. from Cornell in 1963. His mother, Sally Foster Wallace, attended graduate school in English Composition at the University of Illinois and became a professor of English at Parkland College &mdash; a community college in Champaign &mdash; where she won a national Professor of the Year award in 1996. His younger sister, Amy Wallace Havens of Tucson, Arizona, has practiced law since 2005. Wallace married painter Karen L. Green on December 27, 2004.<ref name="NYT1">{{cite web
  | title = David Foster Wallace, Influential Writer, Dies at 46 
  | publisher = The New York Times, Bruce Weber, September 14, 2008
  | url = http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/15/books/15wallace.html?em}}</ref> <ref name="RS">{{cite web
  | title = The Lost Years & Last Days of David Foster Wallace
  | publisher = Rolling Stone, Dave Lipsky, October 30, 2008, Issue Issue 1064 
  | url = http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/23638511/the_lost_years__last_days_of_david_foster_wallace}}</ref> He had a close relationship with their two rescued dogs, Bella and Warner.<ref name="RS"/>

===Death===
Wallace committed suicide on September 12, 2008,<ref name="LAT1" /><ref name="wsj1" /><ref name="NYT1"/><ref name=CHE1>"David Foster Wallace, Postmodern Novelist and Writing Teacher, Is Dead at 46" by Scott Carlson. Chronicle of Higher Education, Sept 14, 2008. [http://chronicle.com/news/article/?id=5142&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en article]</ref> as confirmed by the October 27, 2008, autopsy report.<ref>[http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/1027082dfw1.html David Foster Wallace Autopsy at The Smoking Gun]</ref>

In an interview with ''The New York Times'', Wallace's father reported that Wallace had suffered from [[Major depressive disorder|depression]] for more than twenty years and that [[antidepressant]] medication had allowed him to be productive.<ref name="NYT1"/> When he experienced severe side effects from the medication, Wallace attempted to wean himself from his primary antidepressant, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nardil] Nardil].<ref name="RS"/> On his doctor's advice, Wallace stopped taking the medication in June 2007,<ref name="NYT1"/> and the depression returned. Wallace received other treatments including [[electroconvulsive therapy]].  When he returned to Nardil, he found it had lost its effectiveness.<ref name="RS"/> In the months before his death, his depression became severe.<ref name="NYT1"/>

Numerous gatherings were held to honor Wallace after his death, including memorial services at Pomona College, Amherst College, and on October 23, 2008, at New York University &mdash; the latter with speakers including his sister, Amy Wallace Havens; his agent, Bonnie Nadell; Gerry Howard, the editor of his first two books; Colin Harrison, editor at ''Harper's Magazine''; Michael Pietsch, the editor of ''[[Infinite Jest]]'' and Wallace's later work; Deborah Treisman, Fiction Editor at ''The New Yorker''; as well as authors [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_DeLillo Don DeLillo], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zadie_Smith Zadie Smith], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Saunders George Saunders], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Costello Mark Costello], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Antrim Donald Antrim] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Franzen Jonathan Franzen].<ref name="observ">{{cite web | title = Jonathan Franzen Remembers David Foster Wallace | publisher = The Observer, Adam Begley, October 27, 2008 | url = http://www.observer.com/2008/o2/books/our-critics-tip-sheet-current-reading-jonathan-franzen-remembers-david-foster-wallace-}}</ref>

==Writing and other media==
===Career===
[[Image:David Foster Wallace.jpg|right|thumb|200px|David Foster Wallace giving commencement address at Kenyon College in 2005.]]
Wallace's first novel, ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Broom_of_the_System The Broom of the System]'', garnered national attention and critical praise. Caryn James of the ''New York Times'' called it a successful "manic, human, flawed extravaganza", "emerging straight from the excessive tradition of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Elkin Stanley Elkin's] ''Franchiser,'' [http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title="Main_Page" V.],'' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_According_to_Garp John Irving's ''World According to Garp].''"
[http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/16/reviews/wallace-r-broom.html] Wallace moved to Boston, Massachusetts to pursue graduate studies in philosophy at Harvard University, only later to abandon those same studies. In 1991 he began teaching literature as an adjunct professor at Emerson College in Boston.

In 1992, at the behest of colleague and supporter Steven Moore, Wallace applied for and won a position in the English Department at Illinois State University. He had begun work on his second novel, ''[[Infinite Jest]]'', in 1991, and submitted a draft to his editor in December 1993. After the publication of excerpts throughout 1995, the book was published in 1996.

Wallace published short fiction in ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Might_magazine Might]'', ''[[GQ (magazine)|GQ]]'', ''[[Playboy]]'', ''[[The Paris Review]]'', ''[[Harper's Magazine]]'', ''[[Conjunctions]]'', ''[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]'', ''[[Open City (magazine)|Open City]]'', ''[[Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern]]'', ''[[The New Yorker]]'' and ''[[Science (journal)|Science]]''. 

Wallace received the [[MacArthur Fellowship|MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grant"]] in 1997.  In 1997, Wallace was awarded the [[Aga Khan Prize for Fiction]] by editors of ''[[The Paris Review]]'' for one of the stories in ''Brief Interviews''—"Brief Interviews with Hideous Men #6"—which had appeared in the magazine.  

In 2002, he moved to Claremont, California, to become the first [[Roy E. Disney]] Professor of Creative Writing and Professor of English at [[Pomona College]]. He taught one or two undergraduate courses per semester, and focused on his writing.

Wallace's literary agent during his entire career was Bonnie Nadell.<ref name="nyo">{{cite web
  | title = Remembering David Foster Wallace: 'David Would Never Stop Caring' Says Lifelong Agent
  | publisher = The New York Observer, Leon Neyfakh, September 17, 2008 
  | url = http://www.observer.com/2008/arts-culture/david-foster-wallaces-agent}}</ref> His editor on ''[[Infinite Jest]]'' was Michael Pietsch.<ref name="nyo2">{{cite web
  | title = Infinite Jest Editor Michael Pietsch of Little, Brown on David Foster Wallace
  | publisher = The New York Observer, Leon Neyfakh, September 19, 2008
  | url = http://www.observer.com/2008/media/little-brown-publisher-michael-pietsch-his-writer-david-foster-wallace}}</ref>

===Themes and styles===
Wallace's fiction is often concerned with [[irony]]. His essay "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction",<ref>{{cite journal|last=Wallace|first=David Foster|title=E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction|journal=Review of Contemporary Fiction|volume=13|issue=2|pages=151–194}}</ref> originally published in the small-circulation ''Review of Contemporary Fiction'' in 1993, proposes that television has an ironic influence on fiction writing, and urges literary authors to avoid irony. Wallace used many forms of irony, focusing on individuals' continued longing for earnest, unselfconscious experience and communication in a media-saturated society.<ref>[http://rci.rutgers.edu/%7Ewcd/jestcomp.htm A Reader's Companion to Infinite Jest<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

Wallace's novels often combine various writing modes or voices, and incorporate jargon and vocabulary (sometimes invented) from a wide variety of fields. His writing featured self-generated abbreviations and [[acronym]]s, long multi-[[clause]] sentences, and a notable use of explanatory [[footnote|footnotes and endnotes]] &mdash; often nearly as expansive as the text proper. He used endnotes extensively in ''Infinite Jest'' and footnotes in ''Octet'' as well as the great majority of his nonfiction after 1996. On the ''[[Charlie Rose (talk show)|Charlie Rose]]'' talk show in 1997, Wallace claimed that the notes were used to disrupt the linearity of the narrative, to reflect his perception of reality without jumbling the entire structure. He suggested that he could have instead jumbled up the sentences, "but then no one would read it."<ref>[http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7171768127610835594&q=david+foster+wallace Charlie Rose - Jennifer Harbury & Robert Torricelli / David Foster Wallace<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

===Nonfiction work===
Wallace covered Senator [[John McCain]]'s 2000 presidential campaign,<ref>Wallace, David Foster (April 13, 2000) [http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/18420304/the_weasel_twelve_monkeys_and_the_shrub/1 "The Weasel, Twelve Monkeys and The Shrub."] ''Rolling Stone.'' For a satire of Wallace's piece about McCain, ''see'' Wyman, Bill (April 4, 2000) ''[http://archive.salon.com/politics2000/feature/2000/04/04/wallace/index.html "David Foster Wallace: Ain't McCain grand?"]'' ''Salon''.</ref> and [[September 11 attacks|9/11]] for ''[[Rolling Stone]]''; cruise ships (the humorous title essay for his first nonfiction book), state fairs and tornadoes for ''Harper's Magazine'';  the [[US Open (tennis)|U.S. Open]] tournament for ''[[Tennis Magazine]]''; the director [[David Lynch]] and the [[pornography]] industry for ''[[Premiere (magazine)|Premiere]]'' magazine; the special-effects film industry for [[Waterstone's]] magazine; conservative talk radio host [[John Ziegler (talk show host)|John Ziegler]] for ''[[The Atlantic Monthly]]'';<ref>Wallace, David Foster (April, 2005) [http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200504/wallace "Host."] ''The Atlantic Monthly''</ref> and a lobster festival for ''[[Gourmet (magazine)|Gourmet]]'' magazine. He also reviewed books in several genres for the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', ''[[The Washington Post]]'', ''[[The New York Times]]'', and ''[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]''. In the November 2007 issue of ''The Atlantic'', which commemorated the magazine's 150th anniversary, Wallace was among the authors, artists, politicians and others who wrote short pieces on "the future of the American idea".

===Other media===
In late 2006, [[John Krasinski]] began directing his own script of ''Brief Interviews With Hideous Men''.<ref name="fed reg">{{cite web
  | title = John Krasinski conducts Brief Interviews With Hideous Men 
  | publisher = TotalFILM.com, 19 Sep 2006
  | url = http://www.totalfilm.com/movie_news/john_krasinski_conducts_brief_interviews_with_hideous_men}}</ref>, starring [[Julianne Nicholson]] and a long list of well-known character actors such as [[Christopher Meloni]], [[Rashida Jones]], [[Timothy Hutton]], [[Josh Charles]] and [[Will Forte]]. The movie does not have a scheduled release date.

In memory of Wallace, micro-sound composer [[Kim Cascone]] solicited and collected contributions of [http://projects.interdisciplina.org/microsound/project.php?name=InfiniteJest soundtracks composed] for the fictional films in [[Infinite Jest]].

===Awards===
*John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Fellowship, 1997-2002 
*Lannan Foundation, Marfa TX Residency Fellow, July - August 2000 
*Named to Usage Panel, ''The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language'' 4th Edition et seq., 1999 
*Inclusion of "The Depressed Person" in Prize Stories 1999: The O. Henry Awards 
*Illinois State University, Outstanding University Researcher, 1998 and 1999 <ref>Pomona College, http://www.pomona.edu, Faculty Directory, Archived September 2008, last updated 10/13/05.</ref>

==Partial bibliography==
===Novels===
*''[[The Broom of the System]]'' (1987)
*''[[Infinite Jest]]'' (1996)

===Short story and essay collections===
*''[[Girl with Curious Hair]]'' (1989) (published in Europe as ''Westward the Course of the Empire Takes Its Way'')
*''[[Brief Interviews with Hideous Men]]'' (1999)
*''[[Oblivion: Stories]]'' (2004)

===Nonfiction===
*''Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race In the Urban Present'' (1990), coauthored with [[Mark Costello]]
*''[[A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again]]'' (1997)
*''Up, Simba!'' (2000)
*''[[Everything and More|Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity]]'' (2003) (Hardcover ed.: ISBN 0-393-00338-8)
*''[[Consider the Lobster]]'' (2005) (Hardcover ed.: ISBN 0-316-15611-6)
*''McCain's Promise: Aboard the Straight Talk Express with John McCain and a Whole Bunch of Actual Reporters, Thinking About Hope'' (June 2008) ISBN 0316040533
** paperback reprint of ''Up, Simba!''
*''This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life'' (a commencement speech given at Kenyon College in 2005) (April 14, 2009) (Hardcover ed.: ISBN 0-316-06822-5)

===Contributor===
*''Fiction International 19:2 (Aids Art, Photomontages from Germany and England)'' (1991), contributing author, ISBN 1879691000
*''[[Grand Street (magazine)|Grand Street]] 42'' (1992), contributor. ISBN 0393308588
*''Grand Street 46'' (1993), contributor. ISBN 0393309932
*''The Review of Contemporary Fiction: The Future of Fiction, A Forum Edited by David Foster Wallace'' (1996), Editor. ISBN 156478097X
*''Open City Number Five : Change or Die'' (1997), contributing author. ISBN 1890447161
*''The Best American Essays 2007'' (2007), Guest Editor (Hardcover ed.: ISBN 0618709266)
*''The New Kings of Nonfiction'' (2007), contributing author. (Paperback ed.: ISBN 978-1-59448-267-0)
*''[[The Mechanics' Institute Review]]'', Issue 4 (September 2007), contributing author. ISBN 978-0-9547933-4-0

===Interviews===
* Larry McCaffery, "An Interview with David Foster Wallace." ''Review of Contemporary Fiction'' 13.2 (Summer 1993), 127-150. ISBN 1-56478-123-2 ([http://web.archive.org/web/20071017042632/http://www.centerforbookculture.org/interviews/interview_wallace.html text at the Center for Book Culture via Archive.org])
* Laura Miller, "The Salon Interview: David Foster Wallace." ''Salon'' 9 (1996).<ref name="urlSALON Features: David Foster Wallace">{{cite web |url=http://archive.salon.com/09/features/wallace1.html |title=SALON Features: David Foster Wallace |format= |work= |accessdate=}}</ref>
* "The Usage Wars." Radio interview with David Foster Wallace and [[Bryan A. Garner]]. ''The Connection'' (March 30, 2001). 
* Caleb Crain, "Approaching Infinity: David Foster Wallace talks about writing novels, riding the Green Line, and his new book on higher math." ''Boston Globe''. October 26, 2003.<ref name="urlBoston.com / News / Boston Globe / Ideas / Approaching infinity">{{cite web |url=http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2003/10/26/approaching_infinity/ |title=Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Ideas / Approaching infinity |format= |work= |accessdate=}}</ref>
* Michael Goldfarb, "David Foster Wallace." radio interview for ''The Connection'' (June 25, 2004). ([http://www.theconnection.org/shows/2004/06/20040625_b_main.asp full audio interview])
* Charlie Rose, "David Foster Wallace." [http://www.charlierose.com/keywords/David-Foster-Wallace Interview] by [[Charlie Rose]] 03/27/1997
* Zachary Chouteau, "Infinite Zest: Words with the Singular David Foster Wallace." Complete interview done for Bookselling This Week, a publication of the American Bookseller's Association.<ref name="urlwww.ptwi.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.ptwi.com/~bobkat/aba.html |title=www.ptwi.com |format= |work= |accessdate=}}</ref>
* Dave Eggers, "David Foster Wallace." ''[[The Believer (magazine)|The Believer]]''. November 2003.<ref name="urlThe Believer - Interview with David Foster Wallace">{{cite web |url=http://www.believermag.com/issues/200311/?read=interview_wallace |title=The Believer &mdash; Interview with David Foster Wallace |format= |work= |accessdate=}}</ref>

:See [http://theknowe.net/dfw The Know(e): dfw] for a complete bibliography.

==References==
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==Further reading==
{{refbegin}}
* Benzon, Kiki. "Darkness Legible, Unquiet Lines: Mood Disorders in the Fiction of David Foster Wallace." ''Creativity, Madness and Civilization.'' Ed. Richard Pine. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007: 187-198.
* Boswell, Marshall. ''Understanding David Foster Wallace''. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003. ISBN 1-57003-517-2
* Burn, Stephen. "Generational Succession and a Source for the Title of David Foster Wallace's ''The Broom of the System''." ''Notes on Contemporary Literature'' 33.2 (2003), 9-11.
* Burn, Stephen. ''David Foster Wallace's'' Infinite Jest'': A Reader's Guide''. New York, London: Continuum, 2003 (= Continuum Contemporaries) ISBN 0-8264-1477-X
* Carlisle, Greg. "Elegant Complexity: A Study of David Foster Wallace's ''Infinite Jest''." Austin, L.A.: Sideshow Media Group Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-9761465-3-7 
* Cioffi, Frank Louis. "An Anguish Becomes Thing: Narrative as Performance in David Foster Wallace's ''Infinite Jest''." ''Narrative'' 8.2 (2000), 161-181.
* Delfino, Andrew Steven. "Becoming the New Man in Post-Postmodernist Fiction: Portrayals of Masculinities in David Foster Wallace's ''Infinite Jest'' and [[Chuck Palahniuk]]'s ''[[Fight Club]]''." MA Thesis, Georgia State University. [http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04202007-113340/unrestricted/delfino_andrew_s_200705_ma.pdf]
* Dowling, William, and Bell, Robert. A Reader's Companion to Infinite Jest. Xlibris, 2004. ISBN 1-4134-8446-8 ([http://rci.rutgers.edu/%7Ewcd/jestcomp.htm])
* Goerlandt, Iannis and Luc Herman. "David Foster Wallace." ''Post-war Literatures in English: A Lexicon of Contemporary Authors'' 56 (2004), 1-16; A1-2, B1-2.
* Goerlandt, Iannis. "Fußnoten und Performativität bei David Foster Wallace. Fallstudien." ''Am Rande bemerkt. Anmerkungspraktiken in literarischen Texten.'' Ed. Bernhard Metz & Sabine Zubarik. Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos, 2008: 387-408.
* Goerlandt, Iannis. "'Put the book down and slowly walk away': Irony and David Foster Wallace's ''Infinite Jest''."  ''Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction'' 47.3 (2006), 309-328.
* Goerlandt, Iannis. "'Still steaming as its many arms extended': Pain in David Foster Wallace's ''Incarnations of Burned Children''." ''Sprachkunst'' 37.2 (2006), 297-308.
* Harris, Michael. "A Sometimes Funny Book Supposedly about Infinity: A Review of ''Everything and More''." ''Notices of the AMS'' 51.6 (2004), 632-638. ([http://www.ams.org/notices/200406/rev-harris.pdf full pdf-text])
* Holland, Mary K. "'The Art's Heart's Purpose': Braving the Narcissistic Loop of David Foster Wallace's ''Infinite Jest''." ''Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction'' 47.3 (2006), 218-242.
* Jacobs, Timothy. “The Brothers Incandenza: Translating Ideology in Fyodor Dostoevsky's ''The Brothers Karamazov'' and David Foster Wallace's ''Infinite Jest''.” ''Contemporary Literary Criticism'' Vol. 271. Ed. Jeffrey Hunter. New York: Gale, 2009. 
* Jacobs, Timothy. "The Brothers Incandenza: Translating Ideology in Fyodor Dostoevsky's ''The Brothers Karamazov'' and David Foster Wallace's ''Infinite Jest''." ''Texas Studies in Literature and Language'' 49.3 (2007): 265-292.
* Jacobs, Timothy. "American Touchstone: The Idea of Order in Gerard Manley Hopkins and David Foster Wallace." ''Comparative Literature Studies'' 38.3 (2001): 215-231.
* Jacobs, Timothy. "David Foster Wallace's ''The Broom of the System''." Ed. Alan Hedblad. ''Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction''. Detroit: Gale Research Press, 2001. 41-50. 
* Jacobs, Timothy. "David Foster Wallace's ''Infinite Jest''." ''The Explicator'' 58.3 (2000): 172-175.
* LeClair, Tom. "The Prodigious Fiction of [[Richard Powers]], [[William T. Vollmann]], and David Foster Wallace." ''Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction'' 38.1 (1996), 12-37. 
* Mason, Wyatt. "Don't like it? You don't have to play." ''[[London Review of Books]]'' 26.22 (2004). http://www.lrb.co.uk/v26/n22/maso02_.html
* Nichols, Catherine. "Dialogizing Postmodern Carnival: David Foster Wallace's ''Infinite Jest''." ''Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction'' 43.1 (2001), 3-16. 
* Rother, James. "Reading and Riding the Post-Scientific Wave. The Shorter Fiction of David Foster Wallace." ''Review of Contemporary Fiction'' 13.2 (1993), 216-234. ISBN 1-56478-123-2
* Tysdal, Dan. "Inarticulation and the Figure of Enjoyment: Raymond Carver's Minimalism Meets David Foster Wallace's 'A Radically Condensed History of Postindustrial Life.'" ''Wascana Review of Contemporary Poetry and Short Fiction'' 38.1 (2003), 66-83.
{{refend}}

==External links==
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'''Sources'''
* [http://instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/DFW_present_tense.html Reprint of ''Tense Present: Democracy, English, and the Wars over Usage'', 2001 essay for ''Harper's'' on usage dictionaries and Standard Written English]
* [http://www.lobsterlib.com/feat/davidwallace/page/lobsterarticle.pdf Reprint of ''Consider the Lobster'', 2004 essay on lobsters for Gourmet magazine]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/sports/playmagazine/20federer.html?ei=5090&en=716968175e36505e&ex=1313726400&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all New York Times "Play Magazine" article on Roger Federer, "Federer as Religious Experience"]
* [http://www.marginalia.org/dfw_kenyon_commencement.html Commencement speech at Kenyon College, May 21, 2005] ([http://www.graduationwisdom.com/speeches/0015-wallace.htm excerpt])
* [http://www.harpers.org/archive/2008/09/hbc-90003557 Wallace pieces for ''Harper's Magazine'']

'''Biographical'''
* [http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/23638511/the_lost_years__last_days_of_david_foster_wallace "The Lost Years & Last Days of David Foster Wallace"] by [[David Lipsky]], ''[[Rolling Stone Magazine]]'', October 30, 2008
* [http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/23638939/getting_to_know_david_foster_wallace "Getting to Know David Foster Wallace"], by [[Sean Woods]], ''Rolling Stone Magazine'', October 30, 2008
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/15/books/15kaku.html?ei=5070 "An Appraisal: Writer Mapped the Mythic and the Mundane"], by [[Michiko Kakutani]], ''The New York Times'', September 14, 2008
* [http://www.guernicamag.com/blog/731/dustin_nelson_on_david_foster/ "On David Foster Wallace"], by [[Dustin Luke Nelson]], from ''[[Guernica Magazine]]'', September 14, 2008.
* [http://www.newsweek.com/id/158935 "David Foster Wallace, 1962-2008"], by [[David Gates]], ''[[Newsweek]]'', September 14, 2008.

'''Interviews'''
* [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7171768127610835594#23m15s Charlie Rose Show: An interview with Wallace following the publication of Infinite Jest and A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again], Mar 27, 1997
* [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8874820733386594323#36m26s Charlie Rose Show: A roundtable discussion on fiction with Wallace, Jonathan Franzen and Mark Leyner], May 17, 1996
* [http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=160 This American Life Episode 160 broadcast May 19, 2000 "Character Assassination" Act 2 'Sonny Takes a Fall'] -(19 minute radio where David Foster Wallace "reports on a turning point in 2000's Presidential primaries: the moment when [[John McCain]] failed to respond well to an attack by [[George W. Bush|George Bush]]". Description of broadcast from thislife.org)
* [http://mcsweeneys.net/2008/11/7katovsky.html "David Foster Wallace: A Profile"] -(By Bill Katovsky)

'''Portals'''
* [http://www.thehowlingfantods.com/dfw.htm THE HOWLING FANTODS! - David Foster Wallace: News, Info, Links]
* [http://waste.org/mail/?list=wallace-l Waste - Wallace mailing list]

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