Road trip with David Foster Wallace
A young writer spent five intense days with the author of "Infinite Jest." Here's what they talked about
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A young writer spent five intense days with the author of "Infinite Jest." Here's what they talked about
Sunday, Apr 4, 2010 11:01 PM UTC 39With hindsight, the late author's Rolling Stone article on John McCain's 2000 campaign now looks prophetic
Tuesday, Mar 23, 2010 10:24 PM UTC 18One giant book, 92 days, thousands of readers -- and the world's most ambitious reading group
Tuesday, Jul 14, 2009 10:20 AM UTC 34From David Foster Wallace to Paul Begala, four authors trace the politician's journey from the liberal's conservative to flip-flopping hack.
Monday, Sep 29, 2008 10:39 AM UTC 83The people who knew the brilliant writer best talk about the crippling anxiety and spiraling depression of his torturous final weeks.
Friday, Sep 26, 2008 10:17 AM UTC 57A tribute to the great American novelist who left us all a little less alone.
Sunday, Sep 14, 2008 5:31 PM UTC 107Slogging through the science and history, sex and paranoia that crowd Thomas Pynchon's cartoonish new novel, it's obvious his disciples now write better Big Idea novels than he does.
Tuesday, Nov 21, 2006 1:30 PM UTC 48They're stupid, hyper-aggressive, and they turn each other on by urinating out of bladders in their heads. And David Foster Wallace got everything about them wrong.
Saturday, Sep 18, 2004 8:00 PM UTCTwo critics, one revered and the other almost universally reviled, protest that the literary world has been taken over by big, bad, "ambitious" novels.
Thursday, Jul 15, 2004 8:00 PM UTCDavid Foster Wallace delves into the heart of human darkness in his chilling new story collection.
Wednesday, Jun 30, 2004 8:00 PM UTCDale Peck, the madman critic famous for his trash jobs on Moody, Eggers and Franzen, talks about forgiving his abusive father in his new "fictional memoir" and wonders why we can't all get along.
Friday, Dec 12, 2003 9:00 PM UTCDavid Foster Wallace provides an entertaining tour of the mind-blowingly big numbers -- and establishes that some infinities are larger than others.
Wednesday, Nov 12, 2003 9:00 PM UTCLiterary bad boy James Frey says Dave Eggers can eat his dust. His self-promotion is tiresome, but his addiction memoir, "A Million Little Pieces," shows he has the right stuff.
Saturday, Apr 19, 2003 7:45 PM UTCA postmodern literary lion slobbers all over the former candidate in Rolling Stone.
Tuesday, Apr 4, 2000 4:00 PM UTCTwenty-eight writers try to figure out what we want from our ex-lovers.
Monday, Feb 14, 2000 5:00 PM UTCAlthough David Foster Wallace doesn't act the way an author should, his brilliant new book is filled with desperation, loneliness and addiction.
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