DAVID FOSTER WALLACE IS SPEAKING TO YOU AND HERE IS WHY
Chad Harbach contributes to N+31 a discussion of David Foster Wallace’s career.
David Foster Wallace’s 1996 opus now looks like the central American novel of the past thirty years, a dense star for lesser work to orbit.
I couldn’t agree more. I lent my copy of Infinite Jest to a friend, and I said exactly that (absent the stellar metaphor) when I saw it on his bookshelf, unread for the past five years despite all my desperate cajoling and prodding.
1. N+1, issue 3. The currently featured story, The Reading Crisis, is also a must-read. I find myself agreeing so hard that it feels like I have to pee.