David Foster Wallace

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A Novel That Takes Mundane Work Seriously

The Atlantic 17 Apr 2025

Novels such as Joshua Ferris’s Then We Came to the End, Helen DeWitt’s Lightning Rods, David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King, Ling Ma’s Severance, and Hilary Leichter’s Temporary have taken an acidic ...

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From ‘Infinite Jest’ to Oprah’s Book Club, 1996 changed the (literary) world

The Los Angeles Times 14 Apr 2025

“Infinite Jest” by David Foster Wallace is a work of generational genius ... “David Foster Wallace’s 1996 opus now looks like the central American novel of the past thirty years, a dense star for lesser work to orbit,” Chad Harbach wrote in n+1 in 2004.

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Breakpoint: Don’t follow your heart: When it comes to finding true happiness, do the opposite ...

Chatanooga Times Free Press 12 Apr 2025

Making the happiness crisis in America even worse, especially for young people, are completely wrong diagnoses ... Here's Dr ... Yet we end up as what David Foster Wallace called "lords of our tiny skull-sized kingdoms, alone at the center of all creation."

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