How should I prepare to read Infinite Jest? [more inside]
posted by blueplasticfish on Sep 25, 2009 - 48 answers

Do you have the video for David Foster Wallace's 2005 Kenyon commencement speech? [more inside]
posted by suedehead on Apr 24, 2009 - 2 answers

Why is French language so mangled in David Foster Wallace's novel Infinite Jest? [more inside]
posted by elgilito on Mar 7, 2009 - 16 answers

Please help me identify/find this David Foster Wallace (very) short story. [more inside]
posted by hugo on Oct 28, 2008 - 3 answers

Women writers like Neal Stephenson, are there any? [more inside]
posted by exceptinsects on Oct 5, 2008 - 18 answers

Is it worth waiting for the new edition of David Foster Wallace's 'Infinite Jest' to come out in the UK? [more inside]
posted by takeyourmedicine on Nov 14, 2006 - 12 answers

I really like the essays that David Foster Wallace collects in _A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again_ and _Consider the Lobster_. Which essayists take a similar approach? [more inside]
posted by scarylarry on Jul 28, 2006 - 12 answers

I need some recommendations for great fiction. And yes, I've read all those other threads. [more inside]
posted by nevercalm on Jun 29, 2006 - 38 answers

Long shot: can someone help me understand the ending to David Foster Wallace's short story "Oblivion" from his book of the same name? [more inside]
posted by juniper on Mar 26, 2006 - 5 answers

When reading David Foster Wallace, do you stop for every footnote, or read the piece all the way through and go back and read the footnotes later? Or are you too anti-hip cool to read David Foster Wallace¹? [more inside]
posted by alan on Aug 6, 2004 - 55 answers