Think you know what simple words like "play" and "fun" mean? Ian Bogost's latest book Play Anything will bake your noodle. Flowchart: David Foster Wallace On How To Live A Compassionate Life In "This ...

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 ...

Bookworm David Foster Wallace: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again On a luxury cruise or at a state fair, David Foster Wallace is an ideal reporter on the disintegration of the Actual.

David Foster Wallace may be forever remembered as The Footnote Guy, and not without reason. His prolixity reached even into the small-print margins, and tempus tacendi never seemed to occur to him.

Before Over Your Dead Body, revisit Jason Segel as David Foster Wallace in The End of the Tour, a haunting 2015 drama about ...

In this month of college and university graduations, I often like to revisit one commencement speech which struck a nerve many years ago. Back in 2005, the late David Foster Wallace spoke at Kenyon ...

In 2008, I found myself in Rome searching for The Savage Detectives by Chilean author Roberto Bolaño. The book was sold out, and the friendly clerk at the bookstore handed me Infinite Jest by David ...

Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John ...

Witness the uproarious frenzy of definition when David Foster Wallace cuts loose and tries to make a straightforward statement about the hideous men (and women) in his new book.

David Foster Wallace, 46, a writer known for his literary pyrotechnics, postmodern playfulness and impatience with traditional narrative forms, was found dead Sept. 12 in his Claremont, Calif., home.