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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace stories: 7 news summaries

In Infinite Jest, Book Club Sees Finite Ending

Online group may help you finish Wallace's intimidating tome

Jul 14, 09 3:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - As the first anniversary of David Foster Wallace’s death approaches, many would-be readers still see his Infinite Jest collecting dust on their bookshelves. Wallace’s 1,079-page tome “has become known equally for its sprawling attention to detail, its near impenetrability, and its effectiveness as a doorstop,”... More »

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(Newser) - The late David Foster Wallace once marveled at a Roger Federer forehand, saying, “It was impossible. It was like something out of The Matrix.” And now that Federer has passed Pete Sampras and holds the Grand Slam record, it’s time to wonder if Wallace was on to... More »

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(Newser) - David Foster Wallace declared war on depression and addiction in writing his last, unfinished novel, D. T. Max writes in the New Yorker. The writer's suicide by hanging last year was the culmination of a struggle to live normally, to achieve what he called “adult sanity," without... More »

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New Yorker to Run Excerpt
of Wallace's Last Book

In Pale King, deceased writer 'didn't want to do the old tricks'

Mar 1, 09 4:43 PM CST
(Newser) - David Foster Wallace fans can get a glimpse of the deceased writer’s unfinished novel tomorrow, when the New Yorker publishes an excerpt from The Pale King, the Washington Post reports. Wallace, who killed himself last fall, had been working on the book for years. The magazine will also run... More »

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 Depression Killed 
 David Foster 
 Wallace 

Only friends, family knew of the writer's emotional state

Sep 27, 08 6:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - After a torrent of tributes to David Foster Wallace since his suicide 2 weeks ago, Salon talks with close friends and family members about the decades-long battle with depression that led the beloved and astonishingly talented writer to take his life. For years, Wallace functioned with the help of antidepressants,... More »

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appreciation

 Wallace Kept  
 Up 'Debate 
 Inside His 
 Head' 

Infinite Jest author was an 'astute observer' and 'prose magician'

Sep 14, 08 7:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - David Foster Wallace was remembered today as a complex novelist who engaged in layer upon layer of self-examination. The author of Infinite Jest "wrote about the maddening impossibility of scrutinizing yourself without also scrutinizing yourself scrutinizing yourself and so on," Laura Miller writes in Salon. Wallace's suicide remains... More »

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Writer David Foster Wallace Found Dead

46-year-old Infinite Jest author hangs himself
in California home

Sep 13, 08 10:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Author David Foster Wallace, best known for his 1996 novel Infinite Jest, has been found dead in his California home at the age of 46, the Los Angeles Times reports. His wife, who found his body Friday, told police that he hanged himself. Wallace gained worldwide renown for his ambitious... More »

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