1. David Foster Wallace - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia David Foster Wallace (born February 21, 1962) is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer, and a professor at Pomona College in Claremont, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Foster_Wallace

David Foster Wallace From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search David Foster Wallace Born February 21 Ithaca, New York Occupation Novelist ... short story writer, essayist Nationality United States Writing period - present Genres Literary fiction Literary movement Postmodern literature Debut works The Broom of the System Influences John Barth Don DeLillo William Gaddis Thomas Pynchon David Foster Wallace (born February 21 ) is an American novelist essayist , and short story writer , and a professor at Pomona College in Claremont, California Contents Biography Signature themes and style Bibliography Other ... edit Biography Wallace was born in Ithaca, New York to James Donald Wallace and Sally Foster Wallace. James Wallace had recently finished his Ph.D. at Cornell University ; the family soon relocated to central Illinois , where James found work as a philosophy instructor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1962. James won a professorial appointment within a year and became tenured in 1968. Sally attended graduate school in English Composition at the University of Illinois and eventually became a professor of English at Parkland College , a community college in Champaign, where she won a national Professor of the Year award in 1996. David's younger sister, Amy, has practiced law in

2. SALON Features: David Foster Wallace David Foster Wallace s lowkey, bookish appearance flatly contradicts the unshaven, bandanna-capped image advanced by his publicity photos. http://www.salon.com/09/features/wallace1.html

The SALON Interview DAVID FOSTER WALLACE By LAURA MILLER Illustration by Harry Aung D avid Foster Wallace's low-key, bookish appearance flatly contradicts the unshaven, bandanna-capped image advanced by his publicity photos. But then, even a hipster novelist would have to be a serious, disciplined writer to produce a 1,079-page book in three years. "Infinite Jest," Wallace's mammoth second novel, juxtaposes life in an elite tennis academy with the struggles of the residents of a nearby halfway house, all against a near-future background in which the U.S., Canada and Mexico have merged, Northern New England has become a vast toxic waste dump and everything from private automobiles to the very years themselves are sponsored by corporate advertisers. Slangy, ambitious and occasionally over-enamored with the prodigious intellect of its author, "Infinite Jest" nevertheless has enough solid emotional ballast to keep it from capsizing. And there's something rare and exhilarating about a contemporary author who aims to capture the spirit of his age. The 34-year-old Wallace, who teaches at Illinois State University in Bloomington-Normal and exhibits the careful modesty of a recovering smart aleck, discussed American life on the verge of the millennium, the pervasive influence of pop culture, the role of fiction writers in an entertainment-saturated society, teaching literature to freshmen and his own maddening, inspired creation during a recent reading tour for "Infinite Jest."

3. Dalkey Archive Press: An Interview With David Foster Wallace DAVID FOSTER WALLACE It s a try at a comprehensive diagnosis, not an apology. U.S. viewers relationship with TV is essentially puerile and dependent, http://www.centerforbookculture.org/interviews/interview_wallace.html

An Interview With David Foster Wallace by Larry McCaffery LARRY McCAFFERY: Your essay following this interview is going to be seen by some people as being basically an apology for television. What's your response to the familiar criticism that television fosters relationships with illusions or simulations of real people (Reagan being a kind of quintessential example)? DAVID FOSTER WALLACE: It's a try at a comprehensive diagnosis, not an apology. U.S. viewers' relationship with TV is essentially puerile and dependent, as are all relationships based on seduction. This is hardly news. But what's seldom acknowledged is how complex and ingenious TV's seductions are. It's seldom acknowledged that viewers' relationship with TV is, albeit debased, intricate and profound. It's easy for older writers just to bitch about TV's hegemony over the U.S. art market, to say the world's gone to hell in a basket and shrug and have done with it. But I think younger writers owe themselves a richer account of just why TV's become such a dominating force on people's consciousness, if only because we under forty have spent our whole conscious lives being "part" of TV's audience. LM: Television may be more complex than what most people realize, but it seems rarely to attempt to "challenge" or "disturb" its audience, as you've written me you wish to. Is it that sense of challenge and pain that makes your work more "serious" than most television shows?

4. David Foster Wallace - Wikiquote From Wikiquote. Jump to navigation, search. David Foster Wallace (born 21 February 1962) is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Foster_Wallace

David Foster Wallace From Wikiquote Jump to: navigation search David Foster Wallace (born 21 February ) is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. This article on an author is a stub . You can help Wikiquote by edit Sourced "The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day." Kenyon University Commencement Speech - April 21, 2005 An ad that pretends to be art is at absolute best like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you. This is dishonest, but what's sinister is the cumulative effect that such dishonesty has on us: since it offers a perfect facsimile or simulacrum of goodwill without goodwill's real spirit, it messes with our heads and eventually starts upping our defenses even in cases of genuine smiles and real art and true goodwill. It makes us feel confused and lonely and impotent and angry and scared. It causes despair. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again How long has it been since you did Absolutely Nothing? I know exactly how long it's been for me. I know how long it's been since I had every need met choicelessly from someplace outside me, without my having to ask or even acknowledge that I needed. And that time I was floating, too, and the fluid was salty, and warm but not too-, and if I was conscious at all I'm sure I felt dreadless, and was having a really good time, and would have sent postcards to everyone wishing they were here.

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6. The Believer - Interview With David Foster Wallace David Foster Wallace is from eastcentral Illinois, and this is a large part of his appeal. In addition, he has written a number of books. http://www.believermag.com/issues/200311/?read=interview_wallace

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A Conversation with David Foster Wallace by Valerie Stivers David Foster Wallace did not expect to be the Spring '96 literary posterboy. After all, Infinite Jest is only his second novel and it spends its 1000-plus pages satirizing and decrying consumer and media culture. But the media has made him their darling nonetheless, and book-buyers are, well, buying it. And now, this self-effacing young author His publisher's intense publicity campaign began last summer and apparently it paid off: the novel was already in its fourth printing when it arrived in bookstores this February. Reviews and profiles have appeared everywhere from the New York Times to Salon , from the Atlantic Monthly to Puncture . Fittingly, the hype merited media coverage of its own. A book mocking products, it seems, can still be a hot one. But my fear, as a reader of Infinite Jest , was that the joke was on me. Audiences in Infinite Jest are pretty much fucked. You see, audiences in Infinite Jest are pretty much fucked. At the novel's core are a group of recovering drug addicts, a pair of government agents, and the three sons of filmmaker James O. Incandenza, who inhabit a not-so-distant future in which Mexico, Canada and the United States have formed O.N.A.N.

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9. Dan Schneider On David Foster Wallace David Foster Wallace is one of those really bad writers who decided, long ago, that he would hide his lack of talent, acumen, and skill behind a blizzard of http://www.cosmoetica.com/B237-DES177.htm

Review of David Foster Wallace’s Girl With Curious Hair David Foster Wallace is one of those really bad writers who decided, long ago, that he would hide his lack of talent, acumen, and skill behind a blizzard of words, then laugh at anyone unwilling to engage them as not understanding his genius . This is a symptom of what is known as Postmodernism. The fact is, though, that PoMo has been passé for nearly twenty years. It was in its last throes when he first got going, in the late 1980s. It’s always bizarre to read –ismic devotees who are waiting at railyards that no longer are served, and this is what DFW is, in spades. Basically, if you want to be PoMo you must lack humor, love clichés, be rapt by stilted conversations and stereotyped caricatures, and be able to type on a word processor as quickly as you can for as long as you can and then hope someone with an even more horrid life than yours will sort through your genius. In 1996, this method resulted in a reputed three thousand plus piece of lard first draft that DFW turned into an editor, as he was apparently oblivious to what was good or bad within, which was eventually trimmed to about two thousand in a penultimate draft, which was then cut to about twelve hundred pages, and this became his infamous novel, Infinite Jest - a work that has already made the lists of some of the worst books ever published, even as others decry it, what else?

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11. Powell's Books - Infinite Jest By David Foster Wallace David Foster Wallace is the author of Infinite Jest, The Broom of the System, and Girl With Curious Hair. His essays and stories have appeared in Harper s, http://www.powells.com/biblio/2-0316921173-2

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13. David Foster Wallace Website about the author of Infinite Jest, The Broom Of The System, A Supposedly Fun Thing I ll Never Do Again, and many other stories and articles. http://www.davidfosterwallace.com/

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14. David Foster Wallace - Commencement Speech At Kenyon University Transcription of the 2005 Kenyon Commencement Address May 21, 2005. (If anybody feels like perspiring cough, I d advise you to go ahead, http://www.marginalia.org/dfw_kenyon_commencement.html

Transcription of the 2005 Kenyon Commencement Address - May 21, 2005 (If anybody feels like perspiring [cough], I'd advise you to go ahead, because I'm sure going to. In fact I'm gonna [mumbles while pulling up his gown and taking out a handkerchief from his pocket].) Greetings ["parents"?] and congratulations to Kenyon's graduating class of 2005. There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says "Morning, boys. How's the water?" And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes "What the hell is water?" This is a standard requirement of US commencement speeches, the deployment of didactic little parable-ish stories. The story ["thing"] turns out to be one of the better, less bullshitty conventions of the genre, but if you're worried that I plan to present myself here as the wise, older fish explaining what water is to you younger fish, please don't be. I am not the wise old fish. The point of the fish story is merely that the most obvious, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about. Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude, but the fact is that in the day to day trenches of adult existence, banal platitudes can have a life or death importance, or so I wish to suggest to you on this dry and lovely morning. The point here is that I think this is one part of what teaching me how to think is really supposed to mean. To be just a little less arrogant. To have just a little critical awareness about myself and my certainties. Because a huge percentage of the stuff that I tend to be automatically certain of is, it turns out, totally wrong and deluded. I have learned this the hard way, as I predict you graduates will, too.

15. An Interview With David Foster Wallace - Charlie Rose Author david foster wallace talks about his collection of essays, A Supposedly Fun Thing I ll Never Do Again . Comments. Comment by Kpadraic on Monday, http://www.charlierose.com/shows/1997/03/27/2/an-interview-with-david-foster-wal

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16. Good People: Fiction: The New Yorker by david foster wallace February 5, 2007 . Jury Duty david Denby on Otto Preminger and the films of 2007. Class Act E. L. Doctorow reads a short story http://www.newyorker.com/printables/fiction/070205fi_fiction_wallace

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Menu Content/Inhalt Home Contact Us ... News Home Main Menu Home News by Category The Book Store Books by DFW The Broom of the System Girl with Curious Hair Signifying Rappers Infinite Jest ... Consider the Lobster Resources DFW Bibliography Uncollected DFW Interviews and Audio Web Publications ... The B.I. Project Misc DFW Parodies DFW Parodies 2007 Old Site News Archive Contact Us Login Form Username Password Remember me Lost Password? No account yet? Register Syndicate The Howling Fantods! News since March '97 The Compliance Branch - New DFW Short Friday, 11 January 2008 Word has it that "The Compliance Branch", a new short story by David Foster Wallace, is in the February 08 issue of Harper's. For those of you that recall DFW's 2006 Le Conversazioni piece, I have been told that it is the same story. No comments for this item Review of Elegant Complexity Tuesday, 04 December 2007 Elegant Complexity is available to read over at the hipster bookclub No comments for this item Elegant Complexity is out! Sunday, 02 December 2007 The single best critical text about Infinite Jest has been released!

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