46 books
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Listopia > Wendy Liu's votes on the list David Foster Wallace Studies (50 Books)
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Infinite Jest
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
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Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
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Both Flesh and Not: Essays
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Oblivion
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Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
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The Pale King
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The Broom of the System
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Girl with Curious Hair
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This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
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Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free Will
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Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity
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Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present
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The David Foster Wallace Reader
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Quack This Way
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The Best American Essays 2007: The Most Diverse Collection in the Series―Showcasing a Remarkable Range of Forms
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"he writes the intro ("Deciderization"), which was also in Both Flesh and Not"
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Review of Contemporary Fiction: XVI, #1: The Future of Fiction
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"he writes the intro"
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rated it 4 stars
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Consider David Foster Wallace
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"a collection of academic papers from the first academic DFW conf ever held (in Liverpool in 2009)"
Wendy
rated it 3 stars
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Understanding David Foster Wallace
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"an academic look at Broom, IJ, Girl, and Brief"
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The Gospel According to David Foster Wallace: Boredom and Addiction in an Age of Distraction
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"short book about what we can learn from DFW (not academic)"
Wendy
rated it 4 stars
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David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing": New Essays on the Novels
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"a collection of academic essays focused primarily on his novels"
Wendy
rated it 5 stars
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David Foster Wallace: Fiction and Form
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"a monograph on the literary elements of his novels"
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rated it 4 stars
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David Foster Wallace's Balancing Books: Fictions of Value
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"a monograph on the social, economic, and political connections we can draw from his novels"
Wendy
rated it 4 stars
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Elegant Complexity: A Study of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest
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Existentialist Engagement in Wallace, Eggers and Foer: A Philosophical Analysis of Contemporary American Literature
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"a monograph on Wallace's existentialist influences"
Wendy
rated it 5 stars
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Unspeakable Failures of David Foster Wallace, The: Language, Identity, and Resistance
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"a monograph on failure in his works (either intentional or not)"
Wendy
rated it 4 stars
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Gesturing Toward Reality: David Foster Wallace and Philosophy
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"haven't read this yet but I suspect it will be incredible"
Wendy
added it to to-read
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The Legacy of David Foster Wallace (New American Canon)
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"a collection of essays on DFW's life and work (not all academic)"
Wendy
rated it 4 stars
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Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace
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"extended interview by David Lipsky"
Wendy
rated it 4 stars
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Conversations with David Foster Wallace (Literary Conversations Series)
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"collection of transcripts from interviews he gave"
Wendy
rated it 5 stars
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Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
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"a biography"
Wendy
rated it 3 stars
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Global Wallace: David Foster Wallace and World Literature
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"on the non-US influences on his work"
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Succeeding Postmodernism: Language and Humanism in Contemporary American Literature
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"a look at postmodernism and what it would mean to transcend it (Wallace is one of the authors examined)"
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A Companion to David Foster Wallace Studies (American Literature Readings in the 21st Century)
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"a collection of academic papers on his work"
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Oh the Glory of It All
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"a memoir that apparently mentions DFW (the author met him in Texas?)"
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Jonathan Franzen at the End of Postmodernism
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"an academic monograph that's primarily about Franzen and postmodernism but mentions DFW too"
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How Fiction Works
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"a monograph that bills itself as a "philosophy of the novel" and mentions DFW"
Wendy
rated it 4 stars
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Rocket and Lightship: Essays on Literature and Ideas
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"essays on literature (at least one of them is on DFW, I think)"
Wendy
rated it 3 stars
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Bough Down
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"DFW's widow. not a typical book, more like visual poetry about what her life was like after his death"
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Lit
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"a memoir by poet Mary Karr who had a brief relationship with DFW. she mentions meeting him"
Wendy
rated it 5 stars
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Farther Away
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"the first and titular essay is about Franzen's trip to scatter Wallace's ashes, and includes his personal feelings about Wallace and his death"
Wendy
rated it 4 stars
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Practically Painless English
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"a reference book written by DFW's mother"
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Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing – A Brilliant Collection on Science and Technology from Newton to Star Wars
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"includes the introduction to an edition of Everything and More that was published after DFW's death (apparently Stephenson was a big fan)"
Wendy
rated it 4 stars
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David Foster Wallace
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David Foster Wallace: In His Own Words
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Nature's Nightmare: Analyzing David Foster Wallace's Oblivion
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Conjunctions #17: Tenth Anniversary Issue
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"Order and Flux in Northampton is in here"
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Fictional Characters, Real Problems The Search for Ethical Content in Literature
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David Foster Wallace: Presences of the Other
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David Foster Wallace: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
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