David Foster Wallace

• "David Foster Wallace," The New York Times, September 16, 2008

Lapham's Quarterly: David Foster Wallace, R.I.P. 2008

But the fact that David Foster Wallace's posthumous unfinished novel The Pale King, which is set primarily in a backwater regional office of the American Internal Revenue Service, is at heart if not without significant qualifications a celebration of bureaucracy is the first of many things that make it such a provocative work.

The Pale King by David Foster Wallace – review 2011

Because we're each, as David Foster Wallace wrote, "marooned in our own skulls," interpreting thoughts, feelings, and incidents through our own specially programmed nervous systems, it's difficult to budge someone from their view of "reality" since all the evidence they need is right there in front of them.

Josh Radnor: Why I Chose "happythankyoumoreplease" Over "sadscrewyougetlost" Josh Radnor 2011

As David Foster Wallace wrote in 1993, the "anti-rebels" of new sincerity referring in this case to literature are "willing to risk the yawn, the rolled eyes, the cool smile, the nudged ribs, the parody of gifted ironists..."

Claire Gordon: A Digital Valentine Claire Gordon 2011

A number of early reviews noted similarities between Leonard and David Foster Wallace.

Nine Years After 'Middlesex' Alexandra Alter 2011

Where would David Foster Wallace have turned for help with his love life?

Teddy Wayne: Interview With Maura Kelly, Author of Much Ado About Loving Teddy Wayne 2012

Where would David Foster Wallace have turned for help with his love life?

Teddy Wayne: Interview With Maura Kelly, Author of Much Ado About Loving Teddy Wayne 2012

Here's what I know about David Foster Wallace: Firstly, and primarily, that he died by his own hand.

E.A. Hanks: On Reading "Infinite Jest," Part 1 E.A. Hanks 2011

Where would David Foster Wallace have turned for help with his love life?

Teddy Wayne: Interview With Maura Kelly, Author of Much Ado About Loving Teddy Wayne 2012

That's a question I've been mulling over ever since David Foster Wallace took his own life in 2008.

Tom Ruprecht: Far From the Flames, I Empathize With David Foster Wallace in The Pale King Tom Ruprecht 2011