Conversations with David Foster Wallace

Name: Conversations with David Foster Wallace
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ISBN: 9781617032271

ISBN-10: 1617032271

ISBN-13: 9781617032271

Edition: 2012

Authors: Stephen J. Burn

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Across two decades of intense creativity, David Foster Wallace (1962-2008) crafted a remarkable body of work that ranged from unclassifiable essays, to a book about transfinite mathematics, to vertiginous fictions. Whether through essay volumes (A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Consider the Lobster), short story collections (Girl with Curious Hair, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Oblivion), or his novels (Infinite Jest, The Broom of the System), the luminous qualities of Wallace's work recalibrated our measures of modern literary achievement. Conversations with David Foster Wallace gathers twenty-two interviews and profiles that trace the arc of Wallace's career, shedding…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Publication date: 3/8/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 186
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Introduction


Chronology


David Foster Wallace: A Profile



A Whiz Kid and His Wacky First Novel



Looking for a Garde of Which to Be Avant: An Interview with David Foster Wallace



An Expanded Interview with David Foster Wallace



The Next Big Thing: Can a Downstate Author Withstand the Sensation over His 1,079-page Novel?



The Salon Interview: David Foster Wallace



The Waster Land



David Foster Wallace Winces at the Suggestion That His Book Is Sloppy in Any Sense



Young Writers and the TV Reality



The "Infinite Story" Cult Hero Behind the 1,079-Page Novel Rides the Hype He Skewered



David Foster Wallace



David Foster Wallace: In the Company of Creeps



David Foster Wallace Warms Up



Mischief: A Brief Interview with David Foster Wallace



Behind the Watchful Eyes of Author David Foster Wallace



Conversation with DAvid Foster Wallace and Richard Powers



Approaching Infinity



To the Best of Our Knowledge: Interview with David Foster Wallace



The Connection: David Foster Wallace



Interview with David Foster Wallace



Just Asking… David Foster Wallace



The Lost Years and Last Days of David Foster Wallace



Index