Watching to Death by Tom Winchester
Watching to Death by Tom Winchester The Entertainment is arguably what drives forward, or at least ties together, most of the narrative in in David Foster Wallace’s 1996 novel, Infinite Jest. …
Call for Papers: The Journal of David Foster Wallace Studies
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The International David Foster Wallace Society was founded to promote and sustain the long-term scholarly and independent study of David Foster Wallace’s writing. To these ends, the Society welcomes diverse, peer-reviewed scholarship and seeks to expand the critical boundaries of Wallace studies. We recognize and champion the visual, the alternative, and the literary: the presence of minds at work. The Society showcases a variety of projects—at conferences, on panels, in our print publication, The Journal of David Foster Wallace Studies, and through other non-traditional modes of scholarly expression.
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Wallace and Religious Literature by Nan Denette
Religion and Literature by Nan Denette My first reading of Infinite Jest as a teenager was largely why I decided to study literature in college and why I declared a …
MAPACA Follow-up: So, you took a blue pen…
So, you went to MAPACA 2018 and took a blue pen…now what? Thank you for your interest in the International David Foster Wallace Society! Or, thank you for your interest …
New and Upcoming Work in Wallace Studies
Publications
The Cambridge Companion to David Foster Wallace
The Cambridge Companion to David Foster Wallace
Available August 2018. Best known for his masterpiece, Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace re-invented fiction and non-fiction for a generation with his groundbreaking and original work. Wallace’s desire to blend …
David Foster Wallace: Presences of the Other
David Foster Wallace: Presences of the Other
Available in Paperback February 2018. Why is David Foster Wallace so widely read? Why does his fiction and non-fiction continue to raise enthusiasm among an ever-growing variety of readers of …