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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again - Essays and Arguments by David Foster Wallace
Category: Languages and Reference
In this exuberantly praised book - a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean luxury cruiseliner - David Foster Wallace brings to ...Show more
Both Flesh and Not by Wallace David Foster
Category: Languages and Reference
Brilliant, dazzling, never-before-collected non-fiction, by the legendary David Foster Wallace
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by WALLACE DAVID FOSTER
Category: Fiction
David Foster Wallace made an art of taking readers into places no other writer even gets near. The series of stories from which this exuberantly acclaimed book takes its title is a sequence of imagined interviews with men on the subject of their relations with women. These portraits of men at their most ...Show more
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace
Category: Audio Books
In his startling and singular short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence. Among the stories are 'The Depressed Person', a dazzling and blackly humorous portrayal of a woman's mental state; 'Adult World', which reveals a ...Show more
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace
Category: Fiction
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 and where hideous men appear in many guises. Among the st ...Show more
Broom Of The System by Wallace David Foster
Category: Fiction
Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman, a switchboard operator for the Frequent and Vigorous Publishing Company, tries to cope with her great-grandmother's escape from a nursing home, her insanely jealous but not-too-passionate beau, and a cockatiel that spouts psycho-babble, Auden, and Bible quotations.
Consider The Lobster: Essays and Arguments by David Foster Wallace
Category: Languages and Reference
Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the th ...Show more
Everything And More : A Compact History of Infinty by David Foster Wallace
Category: Science & Natural History
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 math's most enduring puzzles: the seemingly paradoxical n ...Show more
Everything and More:A Compact History of Infinity by David Foster Wallace
Category: unmapped
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 math's most enduring puzzles: the seemingly paradoxical n ...Show more
Everything and More : A Compact History of Infinity by Neal (INT) David Foster; Stephenson Wallace
Category: Reference
Part history, part philosophy, part love letter to the study of mathematics, Everything and More is an illuminating tour of infinity. With his infectious curiosity and trademark verbal pyrotechnics, David Foster Wallace takes us from Aristotle to Newton, Leibniz, Karl Weierstrass, and finally Georg Cant ...Show more
FATE TIME AND LANGUAGE AN ESSAY ON FREE by WALLACE DAVID FOSTER
Category: Culture
In 1962, the philosopher Richard Taylor used six commonly accepted presuppositions to imply that human beings have no control over the future. David Foster Wallace not only took issue with Taylor's method, which, according to him, scrambled the relations of logic, language, and the physical world, but a ...Show more