American novelist and essayist (1962–2008), best known for Infinite Jest (1996) and The Broom of the System (1987).

Born February 21, 1962; died September 12, 2008. Best known for Infinite Jest (1996) and The Broom of the System (1987). Posthumous novel: The Pale King (2011). Awarded a MacArthur Fellowship (1997).

DeBaser reviews praise Wallace's irony, imagination and ambitious scope while noting dense, sometimes elusive plots. Infinite Jest is repeatedly described as monumental and challenging. Readers find his essays and stories incisive on modern life and addiction.

For:Readers of ambitious postmodern fiction, essay lovers, and anyone curious about sprawling American novels dealing with addiction and media.

 Dazed. That's why I'm writing these lines, to share a bit of disorientation, like after a long conversation with someone who's not quite all there in the head and you're tired and you need to talk about it with someone, about this conversation, maybe you'll feel better, even if it was a long, interesting, and at times funny conversation.

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 Infinite Jest - film (therefore fiction) that creates addiction, makes you forget everything else - vegetative state, complete break with reality - a trap - beautiful American entertainment.

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 the monumental "Infinite Jest" is the culmination of everything that was David Foster Wallace: a storyteller, an innovator/restorer, an academic/anti-academic, a writer who, with his sarcastic yet never malicious view of the world, was able, in his pages, to depict the myriad facets of human beings...a true Great Human Comedy of Our Days.

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 David Foster Wallace, like a Damien Hirst of the human system.

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