Tuesday, June 7 2011
David Foster Wallace’s Posthumous ‘The Pale King’ Explores Self-Consciousness As a Disease
The problem with The Pale King is not that it killed a great writer, but that a great writer’s own problems became the narrowing factor for what might have been his greatest work.
Monday, March 29 2010
Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace
Thursday, September 18 2008
This is Water: Remembering David Foster Wallace
Nicholson Baker. Bill Murray. Mark Leyner. David Byrne. Steve Martin. The Coen Brothers. And in the middle of it all, David Foster Wallace.
Thursday, June 19 2008
Lady Lazarus by Andrew Foster Altschul
Lady Lazarus is a naked lunch. The circuit is closed. The simulacrum ironically, paradoxically, signifies everything.
Thursday, May 3 2007
The Resilient Works of Roberto Bolaño: Raccoon-Resistant, Water Resistant, Immortal
Roberto Bolaño's Los Detectives Salvajes, like so many good works, traverses time, language, cultures, and survives a bit battered, but little worse for the wear.
Tuesday, December 2 2003
Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity by David Foster Wallace
This account of infinity is enough to make a head reel, as paradoxes, mind games, and riddles that left the greatest minds in mathematics stumped for ages are packed into a matter of a few hundred pages.
