David Foster Wallace
Why Do Artists Love Tennis? An Investigation
No sport is as ripe for artistic interpretation, nor as aesthetically pleasing and psychologically captivating, as tennis. No, seriously.
We're All a Depressing Part of "Generation Wuss"
I called Bret at his house in LA last week. We talked passionately about his frustration with what he's dubbed "Generation Wuss"—you, me, and everyone else who's young, is hyper-sensitive, and has grown up with the internet.
The New Mental Health Treatments That Might Save Our Athletes
A professor in Las Vegas is taking the mental health of athletes away from sports psychologists and developing a whole new approach.
Post-Irony Is the Only Thing Left in the World That Gets a Reaction
But we need to look back through time to understand how it permeated the present.
The High Tech Cruise Ship Apparently Designed to Troll David Foster Wallace
"There's no way this turns into a nightmarish blood bath at the mega-powerful hands of these robots; it just isn't possible."
If You're Going to Read Plays, Read Annie Baker's
Annie Baker, who won the Pulitzer for her play The Flick, believes that “every single person on this planet is a genius and an idiot” and “any given person you walk by on the street could be brilliant and also deluded and insane.”
The Great American Hack: David Foster Wallace and Aaron Swartz
I just finished 'Infinite Jest.' Like anyone who's spent months reading a 1,008-page book, particularly this one, I'm at a loss. It's sprawling, and by this point, all the important details from the novel's opening pages are teetering on the foggy...
The Great American Hack: David Foster Wallace and Aaron Swartz
Like anyone who's spent months reading a 1,008-page book, particularly this one, I'm at a loss.
How Will the David Foster Wallace Legacy Survive Itself?
As much as I despise the thought that all this post-death doing is killing what was wonderful about what had been, it is a good reminder to anybody that what you do or say or create often only begins to define what you always are.
A Letter to My Future Biographer
If you are reading this then you already know: My legacy as a once-in-a-generation literary genius has stood the test of time. My unexpected and politically significant death merely burnished my reputation as an eerily prescient novelist, beloved...
The Deaths of David Foster Wallace
Wallace's intersecting plotlines and cascades of footnotes were a testimony to the ‘infinitude’ of the world, as he experienced it. His biography, on the other hand, is more like a square meal than a crack binge. But it satisfies some basic biography...
The Internet Can't Hate David Foster Wallace Because He Is the Internet
Oh how the mighty fall and rise up again on the internet. David Foster Wallace was once a mildly controversial figure in the literary world; much less so ever since his suicide has transformed him into an artists' martyr. Wallace has been lionized now...