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...

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, ...

Remarkable, hilarious and unsettling re-imaginations of reality by "a dynamic writer of extraordinary talent " (Jenifer Levin, New York Times Book Review)...

Published when Wallace was just twenty-four years old, The Broom of the System stunned critics and marked the emergence of an extraordinary new talent. At...

Story from the collection: Oblivion: Stories (2004) by David Foster Wallace

"Infinite Jest" is a movie so entertaining and addictive, anyone who watches it loses all desire to do anything else. Individuals, organizations and gover...

The collection of works by the most famous masters of science fiction in the USA and England includes stories that have not been republished in the country f...

McSweeney's is a quarterly American literary almanac founded in 1998 to publish alternative short fiction. At first, McSweeney's published unformatted storie...

David Foster Wallace was at the center of late-20th-century American literature, Bryan A. Garner at that of legal scholarship and lexicography. It was lan...

An expanded edition featuring new interviews and an introduction by the editor, a New York Times journalist and friend of the author

A unique selec...