David Foster Wallace
One Man's Two-Year Quest to Meticulously Map 'Infinite Jest'
On top of the growing popularity of ebooks and the Orwellian end of the written word as we know it, Jonathan Franzen now has to deal with this. And he just lost self-proclaimed “Luddite” Thomas Pynchon "to the digital tide":http://motherboard.vice.com...
David Foster Wallace's Post-9/11 Thought Experiment
The attacks on the World Trade Center didn't just kill thousands and demolish icons, but left behind a kind of slow-motion time-bomb, one that's still exploding. It's target was what David Foster-Wallace calls "the American idea" - "an open society...
Jonathan Franzen Has Some Gadget Shopping Advice for the Graduating Class
Buying a new Blackberry is always a good prompt for a commencement address, and the author of ""Freedom"":http://www.amazon.com/Freedom-Novel-Jonathan-Franzen/dp/0374158460 uses the occasion to describe his obsession with real true human love, and how...
David Foster Wallace's Widow's Technology of Melancholy
Laura Green can't "celebrate" David Foster Wallace's new, final book. She saw his sickness for what it was: a debhilitating madness that kept him from enjoying life. She has her own sadness now, having watched her husband die, and her own guilt. She...