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Conversations with David Foster Wallace

Author: Stephen Burn
Publisher: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2012.
Series: Literary conversations series.
Edition/Format:   Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Collection of interviews that profiles Wallace's career of twenty years, from 1987 until his suicide in 2008, that provides insight into his development as a writer and complicated persona.
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Genre/Form: Interviews
Named Person: David Foster Wallace; David Foster Wallace; David Foster Wallace
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Stephen Burn
ISBN: 9781617032264 1617032263 9781617032271 1617032271 9781617032288 161703228X
OCLC Number: 742234281
Notes: Includes index.
Description: xxi, 186 pages ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction --
Chronology --
David Foster Wallace : a profile / William R. Katovsky (1987) --
A whiz kid and his wacky first novel / Helen Dudar (1987) --
Looking for a garde of which to be avant : an interview with David Foster Wallace / Hugh Kennedy and Geoffrey Polk (1993) --
An expanded interview with David Foster Wallace / Larry McCaffrey (1993) --
The next big thing : can a downstate author withstand the sensation over his 1,079-page novel? / Mark Caro (1996) --
The salon interview : David Foster Wallace / Laura Miller (1996) --
The wasted land / David Streitfeld (1996) --
David Foster Wallace winces at the suggestion that his book is sloppy in any sense / Anne Marie Donahue (1996) --
Young writers and the TV reality / Donn Fry (1997) --
The "infinite story" cult hero behind the 1,079-page novel rides the hype he skewered / Matthew Gilbert (1997) --
David Foster Wallace / Tom Scocca (1998) --
David Foster Wallace : in the company of creeps / Lorin Stein (1999) --
David Foster Wallace warms up / Patrick Arden (1999) --
Mischief : a brief interview with David Foster Wallace / Chris Wright (1999) --
Behind the watchful eyes of author David Foster Wallace / Mark Shechner (2000) --
Conversation with David Foster Wallace and Richard Powers / John O'Brien (2000) --
Approaching infinity / Caleb Crain (2003) --
To the best of our knowledge : interview with David Foster Wallace / Steve Paulson (2004) --
The connection : David Foster Wallace / Michael Goldfarb (2004) --
Interview with David Foster Wallace / Didier Jacob (2005) --
Just asking ... David Foster Wallace / Christopher John Farley (2008) --
The lost years and last days of David Foster Wallace / David Lipsky (2008).
Series Title: Literary conversations series.
Responsibility: edited by Stephen J. Burn.

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A collection of interviews with one of the most influential and innovative literary voices - David Foster Wallace (1962-2008). It gathers twenty-two interviews and profiles that trace the arc of  Read more...

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