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The character David Foster Wallace is introduced to the banal world of the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, and the host of strange people who work there, in a novel that was unfinished at the time of the author's death.

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Brilliant, dazzling, never-before-collected nonfiction writings by "one of America's most daring and talented writers" ( Los Angeles Times Book Review ):  Both Flesh and Not gathers fifteen of Wallace's seminal essays, all p...

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A selection of David Foster Wallace's life's work, introducing readers to his remarkable humor, kindness, intellect, and versatility as a writer. The David Foster Wallace Reader is a compilation from one of the most original writers of our age, fe...

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Brilliant, dazzling, never-before-collected nonfiction writings by "one of America's most daring and talented writers" ( Los Angeles Times Book Review ):  Both Flesh and Not gathers fifteen of Wallace's seminal essays, all p...

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Finally back in print--David Foster Wallace and Mark Costello's exuberant exploration of rap music and culture. Upon the discovery that they shared "an uncomfortable, somewhat furtive, and distinctively white enthusiasm for a certain music ca...

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David Foster Wallace has made an art of taking readers into places no other writer even gets near. In this exuberantly acclaimed collection he combines hilarity and an escalating disquiet in stories that astonish, entertain, and expand our ideas o...

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This exuberantly praised--and uproariously funny--first collection of nonfiction pieces by one of the most acclaimed and adventurous writers of our time--the author of "Infinite Jest"--"reconfirms Mr. Wallace's stature as one of his...

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In this thought-provoking and playful short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence. Wallace's stories present a world where the bizarre and the banal are interwoven...

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A visionary, a craftsman, a comedian and as serious as it is possible to be without accidentally writing a religious text. He can do anything with a piece of prose, and it is a humbling experience to see him go to work on what has passed up till n...

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'A visionary, a craftsman, a comedian... he's in a different time-space continuum from the rest of us. Goddam him' Zadie Smith, Guardian'David Foster Wallace turns the short story upside down and inside out, making the adjectives ''inventive'', ''...

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One of the outstanding voices of his generation, David Foster Wallace has won a large and devoted following for the intellectual ambition and bravura style of his fiction and essays. Now he brings his considerable talents to the history of one of ...

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Girl with Curious Hair is replete with David Foster Wallace's remarkable and unsettling reimaginations of reality. From the eerily "real," almost holographic evocations of historical figures like Lyndon Johnson and overtelevised game-sho...

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Is infinity a valid mathematical property or a meaningless abstraction? David Foster Wallace brings his intellectual ambition and characteristic bravura style to the story of how mathematicians have struggled to understand the infinite, from the a...

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Edited by the critically acclaimed writer David Foster Wallace, this years collection includes such contributors as Jo Ann Beard, Mark Danner, Malcolm Gladwell, Louis Menand, Molly Peacock, and others.

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'A writer of virtuostic talents who can seemingly do anything' New York Times'Wallace is a superb comedian of culture . . . his exuberance and intellectual impishness are a delight' James Wood, Guardian'He induces the kind of laughter which, when ...

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David Foster Wallace was at the center of late-20th-century American literature, Bryan A. Garner at that of legal scholarship and lexicography. It was language that drew them together. The wide-ranging interview reproduced here memorializes 67 min...

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David Foster Wallace was at the center of late-20th-century American literature, Bryan A. Garner at that of legal scholarship and lexicography. It was language that drew them together. The wide-ranging interview reproduced here memorializes 67 min...

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Published when Wallace was just twenty-four years old, The Broom of the System stunned critics and marked the emergence of an extraordinary new talent. At the center of this outlandishly funny, fiercely intelligent novel is the bewitching heroine,...

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A collection of insightful and uproariously funny non-fiction by the bestselling author of INFINITE JEST - one of the most acclaimed and adventurous writers of our time. A SUPPOSEDLY FUN THING... brings together Wallace's musings on a wide range o...

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A visionary, a craftsman, a comedian ... He can do anything with a piece of prose, and it is a humbling experience to see him go to work on what has passed up till now as 'modern fiction'. He's so modern he's in a different time-space continuum fr...

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"The Review of Contemporary Fiction "is a tri-quarterly journal that features critical essays on fiction writers whose work resists convention and easy categorization.

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An expanded edition featuring new interviews and an introduction by the editor, a New York Times journalist and friend of the author A unique selection of the best interviews given by David Foster Wallace, including the last he gave before his sui...

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David Foster Wallace's last finished work-"the most unusual conversion experience in confessional narrative" (Judith Shulevitz, Slate) When David Foster Wallace died in 2008, he left behind a vast unfinished novel-some 1,100 pages of loo...

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»Ich wusste nicht, ob daraus der beste oder der schlimmste Text über mich werden würde.« Roger Federer. 2006 reiste David Foster Wallace im Auftrag der New York Times nach Wimbledon, um über das dortige Tennisturnier zu schreiben. Wallace, selbst ...

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David Foster Wallace ist eine der auffälligsten Stimmen der jungen amerikanischenLiteratur. Die Vielseitigkeit seiner Themen, sein Hang zum Grotesken, seinkreativer Umgang mit Sprache und seine scharfe Beobachtungsgabe machendiese Stories zu ...

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David Foster Wallace' erster Roman - endlich auf DeutschDas Buch, in dem u.a. von Wittgenstein, einem sprechenden Nymphensittich, einer Stadt mit den Umrissen Jane Mansfields, einem Mann, der die Welt mit seinem Fett füllen will, fehlgeschalteten ...

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DAS literarische Ereignis in diesem Jahr!Vor einem Jahr nahm sich David Foster Wallace, einer der wichtigsten Vertreter der amerikanischen Literatur, das Leben. Sechs Jahre lang hat Ulrich Blumenbach an der Übersetzung von Wallaces Opus magnum gea...

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»Es bleibt die Tatsache, dass sich der Hummer verzweifelt wehrt ...« Jedes Jahr findet im amerikanischen Bundesstaat Maine das Maine Lobster Festival statt, bei dem innerhalb von vier Tagen mehr als 9.000 kg frischer Hummer verspeist werden, gekoc...

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Wer das Wesen der Krankheit Depression verstehen will, muss diesen Text lesen Eine frühe Erzählung von David Foster Wallace, erstmals 1984 in The Amherst Review, einer literarischen Studentenzeitschrift, erschienen. Mit erschreckender Offenheit un...

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Das lustigste Buch von David Foster Wallace jetzt exklusiv bei KiWi Eine Luxuskreuzfahrt in der Karibik - David Foster Wallace hat das Experiment gewagt und sich an Bord der Zenith begeben. Eine Woche lang hat er alles mitgemacht, was das Bordlebe...

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