David Foster Wallace, Author . Little, Brown $25.95 (329p) ISBN 978-0-316-91981-4
In his best work, Infinite Jest
, Wallace leavened his smartest-boy-in-class style, perfected in his essays and short stories, with a stereoscopic reproduction of other voices. Wallace's trademark, however, is an officious specificity, typical...
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David Foster Wallace. Little, Brown, $26.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-316-18237-9
Now that Wallace’s unfinished novel The Pale King has been published posthumously, the inevitable trawl of his uncollected writings may begin in earnest and, as is the case here, it will inevitably yield both dingers and duds. His writings on...
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David Foster Wallace. Little, Brown, $27.99 (560p) ISBN 978-0-316-07423-0
A pile of sketches, minor developments, preludes to events that never happen (or only happen in passing, off the page), and get-to-know-your-characters background info that would have been condensed or chopped had Wallace lived to finish it, this...
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David Foster Wallace, Author Little Brown and Company $23.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-316-91989-0
Like the tennis champs who fascinate him, novelist Wallace (Infinite Jest; The Broom of the System) makes what he does look effortless and yet inspired. His instinct for the colloquial puts his masters Pynchon and DeLillo to shame, and the humane...
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David Foster Wallace, Author Avon Books $9.94 (0p) ISBN 978-0-380-71230-4
Although many of the stories here seem little more than deliberately dazzling exercises, standouts include tales of fatuous quiz- and talk-show people and a satirical account of a Midwestern reunion of actors in McDonald's ads. According to PW , ``Wa
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David Foster Wallace, Author Penguin Books $7.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-14-009868-6
In this intriguing, readable business novel, which illustrates state-of-the-art economic theory, Alex Rogo is a UniCo plant manager whose factory and marriage are failing. To revitalize the plant, he follows piecemeal advice from an elusive former...
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David Foster Wallace, Author W. W. Norton & Company $17.95 (373p) ISBN 978-0-393-02757-0
Wallace caused a critical stir with his first novel, The Broom of the System , and this volume of stories is likely to attract equal attention. His publisher talks about post -postmodernism, whatever that means, but there is a highly unusual eye and
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David Foster Wallace, Author Little Brown and Company $25.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-316-92541-9
Some of the 23 stories in Wallace's bold, uneven, bitterly satirical second collection seem bound for best-of-the-year anthologies; a few others will leave even devoted Wallace fans befuddled. The rest of the stories fall between perplexing and...
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David Foster Wallace, Author W. W. Norton & Company $14.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-393-31396-3
Postmodern short stories from Wallace satirize the absurdities of contemporary pop culture. (Feb.)
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David Foster Wallace, Author Little, Brown and Company Inc $35 (1088p) ISBN 978-0-316-92004-9
With its baroque subplots, zany political satire, morbid, cerebral humor and astonishing range of cultural references, Wallace's brilliant but somewhat bloated dirigible of a second novel (after The Broom in the System) will appeal to steadfast...
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David Foster Wallace, Author . Little, Brown $25.95 (343p) ISBN 978-0-316-15611-0
Novelist Wallace (Infinite Jest
) might just be the smartest essayist writing today. His topics are various—this new collection treats porn, sports autobiographies and the vagaries of English usage, among others—his perspective always...
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David Foster Wallace, Author . Norton/Atlas $23.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-393-00338-3
The subject of infinity would probably strike most readers familiar with Wallace as perfectly suited to his recursive style, and this book is as weird and wonderful as you'd expect. There are footnotes galore, frequently prefaced by the acronym...
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David Foster Wallace, edited by Steven M. Cahn and Maureen Eckert, intro. by James Ryerson, Columbia Univ., $19.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-231-15157-3
A progression of ordinary-seeming premises that would obliterate free will is challenged on its own grounds by the late, celebrated author of Infinite Jest. Written in the mid-1980s as one of Wallace's two undergraduate theses at Amherst College (his
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David Foster Wallace, Author, David Foster Wallace, Read by , read by the author. Time Warner Audiobooks $24.98 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59483-099-0
This audiobook is like no other—not for the fabulous essays or deft narration, but for its inclusion of footnotes. Audio footnotes? It's quite simple. When Wallace reads his plentiful footnotes, which as fans know are anecdotal asides...
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David Foster Wallace, Author, David Foster Wallace, Read by, Author, Read by Hachette Audio $17.98 (0p) ISBN 978-1-57042-776-3
Wallace, the young turk author whose ubernovel, Infinite Jest, was way too bulky for audio adaptation, throws himself gamely into the medium now, reading from his short fiction collection. In this audio debut, Wallace delivers his spry, satiric...
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David Foster Wallace, Author, David Foster Wallace, Read by, Bobby Cannavale, Read by , read by the author and various narrators. Hachette $29.98 (0p) ISBN 978-1-60024-737-8
A host of talented narrators and actors—including television actors John Krasinski and Christopher Meloni—deliver nuanced performances of the late Wallace's classic. But it's the author himself who steals the show: his gentle,...
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David Foster Wallace, read by Robert Petkoff, Hachette Audio, unabridged, 14 CDs, 17 hrs., $29.98 ISBN 978-1-60788-388-3
Fans of the late, great David Foster Wallace will delight in narrator Robert Petkoff’s wonderful audio version of the author’s first novel. When Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman, a young switchboard attendant at the publishing firm of Frequent and...
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David Foster Wallace, read by Robert Pekoff and Katherine Kellgren. Hachette Audio, unabridged, nine CDs, 10 hrs., $29.98 ISBN 978-1-61969-263-3
Wallace’s previously unpublished essays are collected in this latest release following his death in 2008. The essays here are gathered from over two decades of the author’s writing and cover a variety of topics, including an excerpt from Wallace’s...
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David Foster Wallace, read by the author. Hachette Audio, unabridged, eight CDs, nine hrs., $35 ISBN 978-1-4789-0073-3
This collection of essays, speeches, and interviews is a colorful reflection of the late author’s work in the last 15 years of his life. It includes some of his most famous later essays, such as “Consider the Lobster” and “This Is the Water,” and...
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