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75Five Famous Writers Who Committed Suicide
Do you ever dream of becoming a famous writer? Do you spend hours creating seemingly meaningless sentences hoping that one day, when your name becomes an unavoidable part of every literature textbook, you will finally be able to live a peaceful life that you always strove for?
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72Truth is Stranger than Fiction: Infinite Jest
In Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace includes a unique cast of characters in a rehab facility. A disclaimer at the beginning of the book states that the anyone can attend AA meetings and suggests the author only attended for research purposes. However, Mary Karr's memoir Lit describes a rehab facility that seems like parts of Infinite Jest are based on true events.
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68Ten Books I Brought With Me When I Moved To Another Continent
If you have to move to another continent, would you bring any book with you? From David Foster Wallace to Thomas Pynchon, here are the ten books I brought with me when I moved from the U.S. to Europe
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73With Love For George Clooney, Zadie Smith Swings
Given my own rather serious self-education but certain lack of any so-called higher education, the most accessible and enjoyable essays in Sadie Smith's book titled CHANGING MY MIND were the ones when she wrote about the subjects that interest me. Franz Kafka and David Foster Wallace carry that distinction royally and always get my attention.
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83Review: David Foster Wallace - This Is Water (Speech)
I've read David Foster Wallace's 2005 commencement speech he gave at Kenyon College at least ten times. It ranks up there in my life as one of the most influential things I've read. A speech you pass on and continue to quote from for years. This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life was published posthumously in 2009
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67Five Books Which Changed the Course of My Life
In setting out to write this article on five books that changed me, three of them came to mind right away. They were all three fiction books. After pausing to think for another second, the last two came to me:...
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73Books You Should Own, But Probably Don't. Part 2: 20th Century American Literature: Postmodern Postmodernism
This is part two in a continuing series of hubs all of which are designed to inform and guide anyone who might want to know a little bit more about the rich tradition of art, letters and philosophy we have inherited from those who came before us. ...
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59Applauding and Humbling Budding Writers
I spent some time today Hub hopping and was amazed at the variety of articles and information offered in this venue. I love to write but do not consider myself a writer, I am a teacher by profession and as such I write to teach. I got into trouble...
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7110 Of The Best Big Books
I can’t speak for anyone else but, personally, I love big books. Big, fat wristbreakers that can double as an emergency paperweight or doorstop. I just think that they’re usually a lot deeper than your...
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55Review of The Pale King
At the time of his tragic death, David Foster Wallace was working on an incredible literary undertaking: tackling the topics of monotony, tedium, and mind-numbing boredom. His long-time editor, Michael Pietsch, spent roughly two years sifting...
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