David Foster Wallace unedited interview (2003)

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  • The Best American Essays 2007 (The Best American Series ®)

    • UPC: 046442709279
    • ASIN: 0618709274
    • ISBN: 0618709274
    • Brand: Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    The twenty-two essays in this powerful collection -- perhaps the most diverse in the entire series -- come from a wide variety of periodicals, ranging from n + 1 and PMS to the New Republic and The New Yorker, and showcase a remarkable range of forms. Read on for narrative -- in first and third person -- opinion, memoir, argument, the essay-review,... [Read More]

  • The David Foster Wallace Reader

    • ASIN: B00JJ322R8
    • Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company

    Where do you begin with a writer as original and brilliant as David Foster Wallace? Here--with a carefully considered selection of his extraordinary body of work, chosen by a range of great writers, critics, and those who worked with him most closely. This volume presents his most dazzling, funniest, and most heartbreaking work--essays like his fam... [Read More]

  • A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

    • ASIN: 0316925284
    • ISBN: 0316925284
    • Brand: Back Bay Books
    • Manufacturer: Back Bay Books

    In this exuberantly praised book - a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean luxury cruiseliner - David Foster Wallace brings to nonfiction the same curiosity, hilarity, and ... [Read More]

  • This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

    • UPC: 884643861019
    • ASIN: 0316068225
    • ISBN: 0316068225
    • Brand: Little Brown and Company
    • Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company

    Only once did David Foster Wallace give a public talk on his views on life, during a commencement address given in 2005 at Kenyon College. The speech is reprinted for the first time in book form in THIS IS WATER. How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously? How do we get ourselves out of the foregroun... [Read More]

  • Infinite Jest

    • ASIN: 0316066524
    • ISBN: 0316066524
    • Brand: Back Bay Books
    • Manufacturer: Back Bay Books

    A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the pursuit of happiness in America. Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our ... [Read More]

  • Hit Man Returns: David Foster & Friends (CD/DVD)

    • UPC: 766703382309
    • ASIN: B004INNRFK
    • Brand: Reprise
    • Manufacturer: Reprise

    "Hitman Returns" was filmed before a sold out crowd last year at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.  The lineup of talent lead by Foster as maestro of ceremonies includes performances by Seal, Donna Summer, Martina McBride, Earth, Wind & Fire, Natalie Cole, Ruben Studdard, All-4-One,"Glee" star Charice, Chaka Khan, Jackie Evancho, Lara Fabian and othe... [Read More]

  • The Pale King

    • ASIN: 0316074225
    • ISBN: 0316074225
    • Brand: Back Bay Books
    • Manufacturer: Back Bay Books

    The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so tedious and repetitive that new employees receive boredom-survival training, he learns of the extraordinary variety of personalities drawn to this strange calling. An... [Read More]

  • Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

    • ASIN: 0316925195
    • ISBN: 0316925195
    • Brand: Back Bay Books
    • Manufacturer: Back Bay Books

    In this thought-provoking and playful short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence.Wallace's stories present a world where the bizarre and the banal are interwoven and where hideous men appear in many guises. Among the stories are 'The Depressed Person,' a dazzling a... [Read More]

  • The Broom of the System: A Novel (Penguin Orange Collection)

    • ASIN: 0143129449
    • ISBN: 0143129449
    • Brand: PENGUIN
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

    Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperbackWinner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books | 50 Covers competition   For the seventieth anniversary of Penguin Classics, the Penguin Orange Collection ... [Read More]

  • Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace

    • ASIN: 030759243X
    • ISBN: 030759243X
    • Brand: Broadway Books
    • Manufacturer: Broadway Books

    NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, STARRING JASON SEGAL AND JESSE EISENBERG, DIRECTED BY JAMES PONSOLDTAn indelible portrait of David Foster Wallace, by turns funny and inspiring, based on a five-day trip with award-winning writer David Lipsky during Wallace’s Infinite Jest tour In David Lipsky’s view, David Foster Wallace was the best young writer... [Read More]

  • Girl With Curious Hair

    • ASIN: 0393313964
    • ISBN: 0393313964
    • Brand: Wallace, David Foster
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

    Remarkable, hilarious and unsettling re-imaginations of reality by "a dynamic writer of extraordinary talent " (Jennifer Levin, New York Times Book Review).Girl with Curious Hair is replete with David Foster Wallace's remarkable and unsettling reimaginations of reality. From the eerily "real," almost holographic evocations of historical figures lik... [Read More]

  • The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

    • ASIN: 0525576703
    • ISBN: 0525576703
    • Manufacturer: Tim Duggan Books

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The Uninhabitable Earth hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Armageddon.”—Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday DemonIt is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratchin... [Read More]

  • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace

    • ASIN: 0147509726
    • ISBN: 9780147509727
    • Brand: Brand: Penguin Books
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

  • On Tennis: Five Essays

    • ASIN: B00FPQA7BG
    • Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company

    David Foster Wallace's extraordinary writing on tennis, collected for the first time in an exclusive digital-original edition. A "long-time rabid fan of tennis," and a regionally ranked tennis player in his youth, David Foster Wallace wrote about the game like no one else. ON TENNIS presents David Foster Wallace's five essays on the sport, publishe... [Read More]

  • A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

    • ASIN: 0316919896
    • ISBN: 0316919896
    • Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company

  • Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity (Great Discoveries)

    • ASIN: 0393003388
    • ISBN: 0393003388
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

  • Elegant Complexity: A Study of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest

    • ASIN: 0976146533
    • ISBN: 0976146533
    • Manufacturer: SSMG Press

    Elegant Complexity is the first critical work to provide detailed and thorough commentary on each of the 192 sections of David Foster Wallace's masterful Infinite Jest. No other commentary on Infinite Jest recognizes that Wallace clearly divided the book into 28 chapters that are thematically unified. A chronology at the end of the study reorders e... [Read More]

  • Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus

    • ASIN: 0199829926
    • ISBN: 0199829926
    • Brand: Brand: Oxford University Press
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

    Much more than a word list, the Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus is a browsable source of inspiration as well as an authoritative guide to selecting and using vocabulary. This essential guide for writers provides real-life example sentences and a careful selection of the most relevant synonyms, as well as new usage notes, hints for choosing betwe... [Read More]

  • The New Kings of Nonfiction

    • ASIN: 1594482675
    • ISBN: 1594482675
    • Brand: Glass, Ira (EDT)
    • Manufacturer: Riverhead Books

    A collection of stories-some well known, some more obscure- capturing some of the best storytelling of this golden age of nonfiction. An anthology of the best new masters of nonfiction storytelling, personally chosen and introduced by Ira Glass, the producer and host of the award-winning public radio program This American Life. These pieces-on te... [Read More]

  • Both Flesh and Not: Essays

    • ASIN: 0316182370
    • ISBN: 0316182370
    • Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company

    Brilliant, dazzling, never-before-collected nonfiction writings by "one of America's most daring and talented writers." (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Both Flesh and Not gathers fifteen of Wallace's seminal essays, all published in book form for the first time.Never has Wallace's seemingly endless curiosity been more evident than in this compilat... [Read More]

  • David Foster Wallace unedited interview (2003)

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