Infinite Jest is the name of a movie said to be so entertaining that anyone who watches it loses all desire to do anything but watch. People die happily, ...

The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he imm...

In the stories that make up Oblivion, David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self-consciousness-a com...

David Foster Wallace made an art of taking readers into places no other writer even gets near. The series of stories from which this exuberantly acclaimed...

The publication of JJ Jadway's infamous book "Seven Minutes" causes outrage in society. The book is considered obscene and pornographic, and they demand that...

Chloe Abrams has terrible luck with men. Having caught yet another boyfriend with another, she pours the coffee she just bought on his head, which interests ...

In this exuberantly praised book — a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films o...

Brilliant, dazzling, never-before-collected nonfiction writings by "one of America's most daring and talented writers." (Los Angeles Times Book Review).Bo...

Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans i...

A clash between two gangs of gangsters involved in importing large quantities of cocaine into England, respectable gentlemen involved in unseemly affairs, a ...

Miss Gwenda Guilford, her uncle Oscar Trevors, sent an encrypted letter saying that he was a prisoner and needed police help. But Miss Gwenda first comes wit...