David Foster Wallace

On David Foster Wallace

Host Jon Baskin, Violet Lucca, Guest Lauren Oyler on May 8, 2023

Reconsidering the man, the meme, and the writing

Voluntarily and For Pay

by David Foster Wallace,

I have now seen sucrose beaches and water a very bright blue. I have seen an all-red leisure suit with flared lapels. I have smelled suntan lotion spread over 2,100…

I Really Didn’t Want to Go

by Lauren Oyler,

On the Goop cruise

Tennis Lessons

by Geoff Dyer,

The meaning of the game

Tennis, Trigonometry, Tornadoes

by David Foster Wallace, on September 11, 2015

A Midwestern boyhood

Three Poets: “The Halls of Aspartame”

by Jess Cotton, on January 24, 2013

Timothy Donnelly on writing challenging verse, the cultural faith bred by 30 Rock, and the poet’s need to reach for the eternities

New Books

by Joshua Cohen,

Always another word

by Michael Pietsch, Zadie Smith, George Saunders, Don DeLillo,

In memoriam

by Harper’s Staff,

Unlikely stories

by Vince Passaro,

The quiet renaissance of American short fiction

Shipping Out