CLAREMONT, Calif. — David Foster Wallace, the author best known for his 1996 novel “Infinite Jest,” was found dead in his home, according to police. He was 46. Wallace’s wife found her husband had ...

There is only one way to immortality: straight and fast. The old cliché follows the idea that it’s better to burn out bright than to fade. It’s a philosophy that has led to a hall of fallen heroes ...

Yesterday marked the second anniversary of UA alumnus David Foster Wallace’s suicide. After getting his bachelor’s degree in philosophy and English at Amherst College, Wallace earned his Master of ...

L.A. Times Book Editor David Ulin remembers David Foster Wallace, the ground breaking novelist who killed himself last weekend. L.A. Times Book Editor David Ulin remembers David Foster Wallace, the ...

The End of the Tour is the story of two novelists, the first who has become very famous very quickly, and the second whose greatest renown will derive from writing about the first. Over the course of ...

In this month of college and university graduations, I often like to revisit one commencement speech which struck a nerve many years ago. Back in 2005, the late David Foster Wallace spoke at Kenyon ...

In 2008, I found myself in Rome searching for The Savage Detectives by Chilean author Roberto Bolaño. The book was sold out, and the friendly clerk at the bookstore handed me Infinite Jest by David ...

The private documents of David Foster Wallace have been purchased by the University of Texas. According to Entertainment Weekly, among the author's possessions were annotated copies of books from ...

The Howling Fantods posts a rare, 1993 interview with David Foster Wallace, originally published in Whiskey Island Magazine, the Cleveland State University lit mag. It’s remarkably forthright: one ...

Marshall Boswell’s Understanding David Foster Wallace (2003) offered an excellent overview but didn’t cover Wallace’s later work. Baskin, however, focuses exclusively on Wallace’s fiction and ...