David Foster Wallace has been dubbed everything from a "hideously talented writer," according to Jonathan Levi in the Los Angeles Times, to the "master of voices, a writer whose sense of history and p...
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In the following essay, Rother discusses Wallace's short fiction as a prime example of “post-scientific writing.”
Philosophy is a noble and arduous discipline. Fiction is equally ...
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In the following review, Norfolk places Wallace within the tradition of contemporary American authors and views him as one of the few American writers who addresses quintessentially American themes an...
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In the following positive review, Moore places Wallace firmly in the tradition of encyclopedic American novelists like William Gaddis, Thomas Pynchon, and William Gass.
While reading William Gass�...
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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 ...
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In the following review, Star discusses the often contradictory nature of Wallace's writing.
Most novelists strive to extinguish the traces of juvenile self-consciousness from their work. Selfc...
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In the following review, Levin finds Wallace's collection of short stories evidence of both an impressive talent and a tendency toward excess.
With this collection of stories [Girl with Curious...
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The following review highlights Wallace's distinctiveness from his predecessors, "the metafictionists," and his contemporaries, "the minimalists."
David Foster Walla...
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In the essay below, critic and educator Birkerts sets Tom Wolfe's call for a return to fiction of social realism on the nineteenth-century model against contemporary techniques of story-telling...
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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 ...
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David Foster Wallace
