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The preface is by Sarah McNally, the book's editor and seller. Wallace's unfinished novel The Pale King contains a character named Chris Fogle. Fogle's wide-ranging monologue (The Pale King's most extensive segment, [2] according to McNally) was extracted to become this novella. [1]
He had also sold his first short-story collection Girl with Curious Hair. Wallace stated that the initial idea for the novel sprang from a remark made by an old girlfriend. DT Max reported that, according to Wallace, she said "she would rather be a character in a piece of fiction than a real person. I got to wondering just what the difference ...
David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and university professor of English and creative writing. Wallace's 1996 novel Infinite Jest was cited by Time magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. [ 1 ]
The Gospel According to David Foster Wallace: Boredom and Addiction in an Age of Distraction (New Directions in Religion and Literature). New York: Bloomsbury, 2016. Severs, Jeffrey. David Foster Wallace's Balancing Books: Fictions of Value. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. Thompson, Lucas Global Wallace (DFW Studies). New York ...
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men is a short story collection by American writer David Foster Wallace, first published in 1999 by Little, Brown.According to the papers in the David Foster Wallace Archive at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, [1] the book had an estimated gross sales of 28,000 hardcover copies during the first year of its publication.
The novel received the 2011 Salon Book Award (Fiction). [19] The first academic conference about the book, "Work in Process: Reading David Foster Wallace's The Pale King", took place at the University of Antwerp in Belgium from September 22 to 23, 2011. Organized by Toon Staes, the conference consisted of two days of papers and discussions ...
Books by David Foster Wallace (4 P) N. ... Pages in category "Works by David Foster Wallace" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
This category is for non-fiction books and essays by the author. Pages in category "Books by David Foster Wallace" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.