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Home » David Foster Wallace

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Posted inBlogs

Deep-fried Twinkies don’t belong in your grocer’s freezer aisle

by Ryan Smith August 17, 2016August 18, 2021

The only place to truly enjoy something as absurd as a deep-fried Twinkie is at a state fair.

Posted inBlogs

Taking the David Foster Wallace magical mystery tour

by Ryan Smith August 27, 2015August 18, 2021

An essay about an essay about a book about David Foster Wallace, which was just made into a movie. Got that?

Posted inBlogs

“Lackey to myself” D.T. Max at City Lit tonight

by Kate Schmidt November 12, 2013August 19, 2021

The New Yorker staff writer and David Foster Wallace biographer reads and takes questions; Mark Caro moderates.

Posted inBlogs

Reader’s Agenda Tue 11/12: Favianna Rodriguez, “Turn of Phrase,” and D.T. Max

by Jillian Sandler November 12, 2013August 19, 2021

What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Tuesday, November 12

Posted inArts & Culture

The Reader’s guide to the Printers Row Lit Fest

by Jena Cutie, Aimee Levitt, Kate Schmidt, Julia Thiel and Kevin Warwick June 6, 2013August 19, 2021

Reader critics’ picks: Judy Blume, Art Spiegelman, D.T. Max, Haki Madhubuti, and more

Posted inBlogs

The Reader’s Agenda: Thu 10/11

by Drew Hunt October 11, 2012August 19, 2021

What’s on the Agenda for Thursday, October 11, 2012

Posted inArts & Culture

A portrait of David Foster Wallace as a midwestern author

by Craig Fehrman August 29, 2012August 19, 2021

A portrait of David Foster Wallace as a midwestern author

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Nobody likes a winner

by Sam Worley April 18, 2012August 19, 2021

David Foster Wallace? Who’s that?

White Tonight by Baby Teeth
Posted inMusic

Gossip Wolf: Julian Malone’s mistaken dis track

by Jessica Hopper and Leor Galil March 8, 2012August 19, 2021

Julian Malone goes solo, Owls reunite, and Baby Teeth drops a fourth LP

Posted inBlogs

Hideous Men at the Wit

by Ed M. Koziarski September 16, 2009August 19, 2021

John Krasinski’s adaptation of David Foster Wallace’s Brief Interviews With Hideous Man screens Thursday 9/17 at the Wit.

Posted inBlogs

The Point — something new to read in Chicago

by Michael Miner June 2, 2009August 19, 2021

Three University of Chicago grad students who believe it’s a bad time for serious ideas launch The Point, a new journal where they’ll find a haven.

Posted inBlogs

DFW’s unpublished thesis

by Whet Moser December 12, 2008August 19, 2021

David Foster Wallace’s senior thesis gets a hearing in the NYT.

Posted inBlogs

I wish you way more than luck

by Whet Moser October 29, 2008August 19, 2021

David Lipsky on the life and death of DFW.

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On David Foster Wallace

by Whet Moser September 15, 2008August 19, 2021

RIP, DFW

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Eight hundred miles from Ground Zero

by Whet Moser September 11, 2007August 19, 2021

On 9/11 literature from the midwest.

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