David Foster Wallace

...only 500,000 pages, but I love Dickens. I don't know -- what did I read this year that I was into? Some David Foster Wallace because he killed himself - I didn't know that, that he'd killed himself a while ago and I hadn't heard [about it...

In this article: David Duchovny, Californication, Literature, Tom Kapinos, Yale, Jackson Pollock, Madeleine Martin, and God

The absurd scenes here describing Bollettieri's academy, which Agassi calls a "glorified prison camp," read like something from David Foster Wallace's novel "Infinite Jest." When Agassi turned pro, he had plenty of game and a teenager's...

In this article: Andre Agassi, J.R. Moehringer, Pete Sampras, Nick Bollettieri, Bjorn Borg, Steffi Graf, Barbra Streisand, and Las Vegas

...being a father to twins "quite easy" and will have them with him at the ATP World Finals Photo: AP The American novelist David Foster Wallace, who committed suicide last year, would have enjoyed the 2009 tennis season, and not just...

In this article: Roger Federer, US Open, London, Wimbledon, Juan Martin del Potro, Andre Agassi, and Suicide

...to a barbed takedown of the film Memoirs Of A Geisha. And in a final section, Remembering, Smith revisits the work of David Foster Wallace and embraces the opportunity to passionately defend challenging writing itself. I really...

In this article: Sarah Palin, Zadie Smith, Andre Agassi, Nicholas Wade, Stephen King, God, Under the Dome, NPR, and John McCain

...petulant reluctance to read Their Eyes Were Watching God. The last essay, a bravura defence of the late lamented David Foster Wallace, where Smith shows that as a critical reader she is stunningly perceptive, is shot through with concern...

In this article: Zadie Smith, James Wood, EM Forster, Oscars, Autograph Man, Hamish Hamilton, and V for Vendetta

...(Thursday) : DUNDER MIFFLIN FACES THE SHAREHOLDERS-Michael (Golden Globe winner Steve Carell) gets excited when he's invited by David Wallace (Andy Buckley) to be honored on stage at the Dunder Mifflin shareholder meeting in New York, and...

In this article: Steve Carell, Andy Buckley, Oscar Nunez, Ellie Kemper, Dunder Mifflin, David Wallace, Paul Lieberstein, Golden Globe, Rainn Wilson, and Brian Baumgartner

...sections: "Reading," "Being," "Seeing," "Feeling" and "Remembering," which is devoted to her late friend David Foster Wallace. Even the jacket, which spreads the author's name in an immense flourish across the front, tells us what's going on.

In this article: Zadie Smith, Barack Obama, Self-consciousness, Roland Barthes, Shopgirl, Bret Easton Ellis, White Teeth, Katharine Hepburn, and Steve Martin

...appeal and Russ Mitchell from CBS' "Early Show" makes a cameo as himself. Michael (Steve Carell) gets excited when he's invited by David Wallace (Andy Buckley) to be honored on stage at the Dunder Mifflin shareholder meeting in New York, and...

In this article: David Schwimmer, Andy Buckley, New York City, Jim Parsons, Larry David, Simon Helberg, and Oscar Nunez

...Late Middle Ages!"), Best American Festival Names (we like the Interstate Mullet Toss), Jonathan Franzen's wonderful tribute to David Foster Wallace and many stories from small literary mags around the country. Proceeds from sales go to the...

In this article: Clarence Clemons, Bruce Springsteen, Harvard, Andromeda Strain, Amazon.com, and Jonathan Franzen

...to the tricky complexities of the project. </p><p>Sara's ex is played by "The Office's" John Krasinski, who has adapted David Foster Wallace's book and makes his directing debut as well. His film is filled with static shots, subjective...

In this article: John Krasinski, Julianne Nicholson, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Dominic Cooper, Zygmunt Krasinski, Timothy Hutton, Frankie Faison, and Neil LaBute