Topic: David Foster Wallace

The Discovery

The afterlife is real

Gary M. Kramer
Donald Trump; David Foster Wallace

Trump & the hobbling of shame

David Masciotra
The 50th Annual CMA Awards - Show

Fight apathy with art

David Masciotra
The Hollars

John Krasinski's family affair

Scott Timberg
Binge Watcher

Normalizing the binge

Thomas Cook
The Jayhawks

Jayhawks: "Paging Mr. Proust"

Scott Timberg
Valerie Plame, Chris Pavone

Valerie Plame has one regret

Chris Pavone, Valerie Plame
Dave Eggers, David Foster Wallace, Jennifer Egan

David Foster Wallace's legacy

Lee Konstantinou
David Foster Wallace

The genius of "Infinite Jest"

Scott Timberg
Sean Penn

Sean Penn's bizarre ramblings

Scott Timberg
Mark Karr

Mary Karr is over DFW fanboys

Scott Timberg
Image for David Foster Wallace was not a bro: Let's not paint the writer with the same brush as his fans

DFW wasn't a bro

Scott Timberg
Image for David Foster Wallace is long gone, but Bret Easton Ellis is keeping the feud alive

He would have killed himself

Scott Eric Kaufman
Jason Segel

Jason Segel talks DFW

Andrew O'Hehir
David Foster Wallace

Reality TV is good for America

Silpa Kovvali
Michelle Rhee, Rahm Emanuel, Arne Duncan

"Democracy cannot survive"

Elias Isquith
Jonathan Franzen, David Foster Wallace

Foster Wallace vs. Franzen

Eric G. Wilson
Montage of Heck

Smells like doomed genius

Andrew O'Hehir
Portlandia

We have irony all wrong

Steven Quartz, Anette Asp
Image for David Foster Wallace's importance of being earnest: Irony, Generation X and the sheer joy of language

David Foster Wallace's joy

Adam Kirsch
Image for David Foster Wallace's mind-blowing creative nonfiction syllabus:

Inside DFW's nonfiction class

David Foster Wallace
Image for David Foster Wallace's amazing fiction syllabus:

DFW's modern fiction syllabus

David Foster Wallace
Image for Condi Rice vs. the hipsters: All of you should know better!

Condi Rice vs. the hipsters

Colin McEnroe
Image for Are millennials too cool for sincerity? The truth about our love affair with irony

Gen Y: Too cool for sincerity

Philip Burnett

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