Tag: david foster wallace

  • Yes, I am yet another MFA Bro who loves David Foster Wallace.

    Molly McGhee in LitHub talking about ‘dick lit’, including Wallace, Vonnegut, and Zadie Smith (trust me, it works): In these two years guns were held in my face, hands were wrapped around my throat, and two separate men broke the windows of my house in an attempt get in: one of them to see my…

  • The capital-T Truth is about life BEFORE death

    This didn’t cross my radar until today’s post on Open Culture. David Foster Wallace’s commencement speech in 2005. If you’re curious it’s about 3 years before he took his own life. The speech is beautiful and will consume you within the first minute: …there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such…