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 David Foster Wallace Quotes
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 David Foster Wallace (born 21 February 1962 ) is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. Sourced "The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and... 
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 David Foster Wallace Information
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David Foster Wallace (born February 21 1962) is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer, and a professor at Pomona College in Claremont,...
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 Publishers Weekly David Foster Wallace: In The Company of Creeps.
05/03/1999: 2,097 words, approx. 7 pages Author David Foster Walace known for "Infinite Jest" is interviewed as his contoversial and compelling book tiltled, "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men" is released. The author shares the reactions to this book which delves into the psyche of men and their relationship to women.... summary from source:
The Hudson Review The Negative Style of David Foster Wallace
01/01/2005: 4,078 words, approx. 14 pages The Negative Style of David Foster Wallace READERS OF FICTION, LIKE THE HEROINES OF CHILDREN'S FANTASIES, are always waking up bearing souvenirs from their dreams. Fiction's great gift is that it allows us to carry the unreal acquisitions we make in it, its... summary from source:
 The New York Observer Come Play in My Inbox! Times Sports Extra Goes Digital
5/3/2007: 366 words, approx. 1 pagesThe New York Times launched its glossy Play magazine in February 2006 as a quarterly showcase for detailed, meticulously researched, carefully crafted narratives about sports. Last week, for fans with less patience, the magazine went into a hurry-up offense: Play is now also a weekly... summary from source:
The New York Observer Our Critic\'d5s Tip Sheet On Current Reading: Week of June 11th, 2007
6/5/2007: 283 words, approx. 1 pages In the summer fiction issue of The New Yorker (June 11 and 18, $4.95), D.T. Max profiles Tom Staley, the director of a vast and growing literary archive at the University of Texas at Austin. Offered the opportunity to browse through the collection, Mr....
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 Interview by Larry McCaffery
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In the following interview, McCaffery questions Wallace on matters of style, technique, and substance in his writing, as well as his relationship to the popular culture that figures so prominently in his work.
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Critical Essay by Tom LeClair
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In the following essay, LeClair contrasts three roughly contemporaneous younger novelists against their innovative forbears, especially Thomas Pynchon, and makes his case for a new and scientifically more astute voice in American literature that broadens and deepens the commentary and critique begun by the so-called metafictionists.
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Critical Essay by James Rother
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In the following essay, Rother discusses Wallace's short fiction as a prime example of “post-scientific writing.”
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