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 ...

Today in books and publishing: 96-year-old Pulitzer Prize winner Herman Wouk gets a book deal, deconstructing Amazon's charitable ways, and a non-heartbreaking letter from David Foster Wallace to Don ...

So, yes, more press attention for David Foster Wallace, sprawling novelist, sterling essayist, suicide. The appalling news two weekends ago that Wallace had hanged himself quickly ballooned into a ...

CLAREMONT, Calif. — David Foster Wallace, the author best known for his 1996 novel “Infinite Jest,” was found dead in his home, according to police. He was 46. Wallace’s wife found her husband had ...

Last month saw the launch of SkinneePix, an iPhone app by the company Pretty Smart Women that "helps you edit your Selfies to look 5, 10 or 15 lbs. skinnier in two quick clicks on your iPhone." ...

This is FRESH AIR. The new movie "The End Of The Tour" is adapted from a series of interviews between the novelist David Foster Wallace and a Rolling Stone reporter after the publication of Wallace's ...

Jason Segel and Jesse Eisenberg will star in The End of the Tour. James Ponsoldt will direct the film retelling the events of the last five days of the late writer David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest ...

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 ...

The private documents of David Foster Wallace have been purchased by the University of Texas. According to Entertainment Weekly, among the author's possessions were annotated copies of books from ...

D.T. Max almost approached David Foster Wallace at a book release party, but ended up getting cold feet. It was only after writing an entire book about the famed recluse that Max could be sure he made ...