David foster wallace

How the author of Infinite Jest became the center of a self-help cult.

In "This Is Water," David Foster Wallace offers thoughts on living a compassionate life. Jessica Hagy beautifully illustrates them here.

This is water. By david foster wallace.

Photo courtesy of Claudia Sherman. The term 'creative nonfiction' has picked up a great deal of traction over the past decade — perhaps too much, depending upon how valid or invalid you find it.

"Infinite Jest" by David Foster Wallace is an anti-drug anthem disguised as a postmodern parable. The book's theme goes beyond mere chemical dependency to condemn our age's enslavement to the screen. Wallace's groundbreaking art parallels his own tragic life.

I edited both authors when they were starting out and can attest that the enmity between the two goes back decades

If you spend enough time reading or writing, you find a voice, but you also find certain tastes. You find certain writers who when they write, it makes your own brain voice like a tuning fork, and you just resonate with them. And when that happens, reading those writers ... becomes a source of unbelievable joy. It’s like eating candy for the soul. And I sometimes have a hard time understanding how people who don’t have that in their lives make it through the day.