David Foster Wallace, the late writer of Infinite Jest and The Broom of the System and a University of Arizona alum, influenced a generation of writers with his hilarious, intelligent, ...

University of Arizona alumnus and heralded as the “Voice of a Generation” by far too many people to count, David Foster Wallace was one hell of a writer — to put it mildly. And while he’s well known ...

Yesterday marked the second anniversary of UA alumnus David Foster Wallace’s suicide. After getting his bachelor’s degree in philosophy and English at Amherst College, Wallace earned his Master of ...

In 1996, shortly after the publication of “Infinite Jest,” David Foster Wallace took courses at Harvard University on accounting and federal tax law. He had an idea for a new novel: an exploration of ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. It comes as no surprise that there was something unfinished. When David ...

Today in publishing and literature: How to celebrate the David Foster Wallace 50th, Cormac McCarthy has been living a double life and the hastily-written Jeremy Lin e-books are here. The most moving ...

Before David Foster Wallace died by suicide at his California home, in 2008, he left a pile of papers, spiral notebooks, three-ring binders, and floppy disks on a table in his garage. The collection ...

Throughout his work, Wallace continually explores the limits of irony, the dangers of technology and what he called the “emotional poverty” of contemporary America. He told one interviewer: “In dark ...