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...

The first biography of the most influential writer of his generation, David Foster Wallace.David Foster Wallace was the leading literary light of his era,...

An indelible portrait of David Foster Wallace, by turns funny and inspiring, based on a five-day trip with award-winning writer David Lipsky during Wallac...

Across two decades of intense creativity,David Foster Wallace(1962-2008) crafted a remarkable body of work that ranged from unclassifiable essays, to a 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...

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...

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...

When twenty-six elderly patients disappear from the Shaker Heights nursing home under mysterious circumstances, Lynore Beadsman does not yet know that this i...

An outstanding master of the form, David Foster Wallace was recognized during his lifetime as the most significant writer of his generation, and each new boo...