On Thursday, April 5, the Ransom Center kicks off The David Foster Wallace Symposium with a public event featuring Wallace’s literary agent, Bonnie Nadell, and his editor, Michael Pietsch, in conversation with Los Angeles Times book critic David Ulin. The free, public event will take place at 7 p.m. (C.S.T.)… read more
David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace’s library: Dog ears, coffee rings, duct tape, and heavy markings
Jacqueline Muñoz, librarian at the Ransom Center, cataloged more than 300 books from David Foster Wallace’s archive. Here, she writes about her experience working with the collection and her personal response to Wallace’s work. I didn’t think much of Infinite Jest in the beginning. My impression of David Foster Wallace’s… read more
Additional David Foster Wallace materials at the Ransom Center
The David Foster Wallace papers have been cataloged and are now available for study in the Ransom Center’s reading room. Since last March when the Center announced its acquisition of the papers, a few small collections have arrived that complement the archive acquired from Wallace’s Estate. Just weeks after we… read more