“David Foster Wallace” Articles

Whereas the world of addictive pleasure teaches us to feel, the world of beauty teaches us to sacrifice: to go beyond attention to the self and give attention toward another.

We’re three months into 2021. Is it everything you hoped? Or nothing like you dreamed? For many of us, the excitement has worn off, and the hard work of renewal has begun.

Who has the words to grieve that David Foster Wallace could write what we believe and betray it constantly in his own life?

Fast food may be considered low culture, but it’s the common ground of friendship for David Foster Wallace and David Lipsky in ‘The End of the Tour’.

Fame always rested uneasily on David Foster Wallace’s brow. By some accounts he hungered for it, but he was also smart enough to know what that unseemly appetite said about him.

“Some say “I follow Peter,” and others say “I follow Apollos.” Well, here are a few guys whose hearts are sold out for comedy alone. Soli commedia gloria.”