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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 ...

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David Foster Wallace won just as many tennis majors as he entered: zero. He never played the professional tour, he never played D1 college tennis, and he was acutely aware of his shortcomings on the ...

In 2008, I found myself in Rome searching for The Savage Detectives by Chilean author Roberto Bolaño. The book was sold out, and the friendly clerk at the bookstore handed me Infinite Jest by David ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Wallace’s widow, on the other hand, doesn’t talk about his suicide in terms of aesthetic or metaphysical despair. “It was just a day in his life,” she says, “and a day in mine.”3 She folds his death ...

David Foster Wallace, 46, a writer known for his literary pyrotechnics, postmodern playfulness and impatience with traditional narrative forms, was found dead Sept. 12 in his Claremont, Calif., home.