David Foster Wallace (1962-2008)

See: Worship, Mindfulness, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Brief Interviews With Hideous Men.

References

(Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Foster_Wallace Retrieved:2015-5-17.
- David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008) was an American author of novels, short stories and essays, as well as a professor of English and creative writing. Wallace is widely known for his 1996 novel Infinite Jest, which was cited by Time magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005.
  Wallace's last, unfinished novel, The Pale King, was published in 2011 and was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. A biography of Wallace was published in September 2012, and an extensive critical literature on his work has developed in the past decade.
  Los Angeles Times book editor David Ulin called Wallace "one of the most influential and innovative writers of the last 20 years."

(Foster Wallace, 2005) ⇒ David Foster Wallace. (2005). “Commencement Speech to Kenyon College Class of 2005."

(Wallace, 1999) ⇒ D.F. Wallace. (1999). “Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: Stories.” Little, Brown. ISBN:9780316086899

"A Conversation with David Foster Wallace By Larry McCaffery." from “The Review of Contemporary Fiction,” Summer 1993, Vol. 13.2
- QUOTE: DFW: I had a teacher I liked who used to say good fiction’s job was to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. I guess a big part of serious fiction’s purpose is to give the reader, who like all of us is sort of marooned in her own skull, to give her imaginative access to other selves. …

(Foster Wallace, 1987) ⇒ David Foster Wallace. (1987). “The Broom of the System."