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David Foster Wallace

January 29, 2016, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching

Fellows Find: Revelations hidden on post-its, in book flaps, and in the margins of the papers in David Foster Wallace’s archive

Players by Don DeLillo.

Stephen J. Burn, a Reader in American Literature after 1945 at the University of Glasgow, visited the Ransom Center during the spring of 2011 to research his book-in-progress, Neurofiction: the Contemporary American Novel and the Brain (Don DeLillo/ David Foster Wallace). Burn’s research was supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation… read more 

January 29, 2016, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts

David Foster Wallace and 20 years of Infinite Jest

David Foster Wallace (1962-2008). Letter to his editor, Michael Pietsch, dated Sept. 20, 1995. © David Foster Wallace Literary Trust.

Twenty years ago, in February of 1996, Little, Brown and Company published David Foster Wallace’s (1962–2008) novel Infinite Jest. It was a bold undertaking for the firm to publish a complex, challenging novel that spans over 1,000 pages and contains hundreds of endnotes, many quite lengthy and all printed in… read more 

January 29, 2016, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events

Accessing David Foster Wallace’s “other selves” through the archive

To commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the publication of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, Heather Houser, an Associate Professor of English at The University of Texas at Austin, will be one of the readers sharing their favorite passages from the novel on Wednesday, February 3, at noon. Undergraduates Dylan Davidson, Kendall… read more 

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