Last year, I found myself mildly obsessed with a cache of YouTube clips, featuring the novelists Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Franzen, Zadie Smith, David Foster Wallace and Nathan Englander at a 2006 literary conference in Italy called Le Conversazioni. Part of what interested me, in a gate-crashing kind of way, was the backdrop: midsummer on the...
Book tours are lonely, yet after spending four months promoting his novel ''Freedom,'' Jonathan Franzen went to an island 500 miles off the coast of Chile to be alone. He got at least one thing out of it, a profound essay in The New Yorker called ''Farther Away,'' the winner of another of this year's Sidney Awards. Franzen's theme is solitude. He...
PULPHEAD By John Jeremiah Sullivan 369 pp. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $16. It is something of a surprise that one of the best magazine profiles of the last decade is about Axl Rose. But such is the work of John Jeremiah Sullivan, who can take pretty much anything you never thought you'd want to read about respectably (Axl Rose, ''Real World'') or...
David Foster Wallace (21. februar 1962 i Ithaca, New York - 12. september 2008 i Claremont, CalifornienYahoo! Search - Web Search) var en amerikansk forfatter. Wallace fik sit internationale gennembrud med romanen Infinite Jest i 1996.
David Wallace døde den 12. september 2008, da han hængte sig selv i sit hjem i Californien.