Today we bring you several readings by David Foster Wallace of his own work. We begin at the top with “Death is Not the End” from Brief Interviews, that collection of “weird metafiction” that couches raw and painful confessions in layers of irony.Below it, from that same collection, we have “Suicide as a Sort of Present,” a piece that, in hindsight, offers its own potential.
Essay This Is Water By David Foster Wallace “This is Water” by David Foster Wallace is a short writing that challenges the reader to think in a different way in order to bring one back to the real world that surrounds them. He explains that the way we all currently think leads to a self-absorbed mind that ultimately leads to a stressed and.
David Foster Wallace was born February 21, 1962, in Ithaca, New York. His father, James Wallace, is a philosophy professor at the University of Illinois, and his mother, Sally Foster Wallace, is an instructor in English at Parkland College, a community college in Champaign, Illinois. Amy Wallace Havens, Wallace's younger sister, practices law in Tucson, Arizona. Wallace married artist Karen.
David Foster Wallace. Infinite Jest. Birthplace: Ithaca, NY Location of death: Claremont, CA Cause of death: Suicide. Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Se. Father: James Donald Wallace Mother: Sally Foster Wallace Sister: Amy (attorney) Wife: Karen Green (until his death) Girlfriend: Mary Karr High School: University High School.
David Foster Wallace’s first novel, The Broom of the System, caught the attention of the entire country and garnered a lot of critical praise. Critics of the book compared him to Stanley Elkin, Thomas Pynchon, and John Irving. His next novel, Infinite Jest, was wildly successful and acclaimed. His next published work was the commencement.
David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in his new book of hilarious non-fiction. For this collection, David Foster Wallace immerses himself in the three-ring circus that is the presidential race in order to document one of the most vicious campaigns in recent history. Later he strolls from booth to booth at a lobster festival in.
Collected here for the first time are the stories and speeches of David Foster Wallace as read by the author himself. Over the course of his career, David Foster Wallace recorded a variety of his work in diverse circumstances - from studio recordings to live performances - that are finally compiled in this unique collection.