I thought I had lost them. For decades, I kept eight letters, a postcard and a holiday card from David Foster Wallace tucked in my copy of “Infinite Jest.” The missives traveled with me from my ...

David Foster Wallace may be forever remembered as The Footnote Guy, and not without reason. His prolixity reached even into the small-print margins, and tempus tacendi never seemed to occur to him.

David Foster Wallace Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (Little, Brown) Witness the uproarious frenzy of definition when David Foster Wallace cuts loose and tries to make a straightforward statement ...