David Foster Wallace: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (The Last Interview Series)

Wallace, David Foster

ISBN 10: 1612192068 / ISBN 13: 9781612192062

Published by Melville House, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: David Foster Wallace: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (The Last Interview Series)
• Publisher: Melville House
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1612192068
• ISBN 13: 9781612192062
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

In intimate and eloquent interviews, including the last he gave before his suicide, the writer hailed by A.O. Scott of The New York Times as “the best mind of his generation” considers the state of modern America, entertainment and discipline, adulthood, literature, and his own inimitable writing style.

In addition to Wallace’s last interview, the volume features a conversation with Dave Eggers, a revealing Q&A with the magazine of his alma mater Amherst, his famous Salon interview with Laura Miller following the publication of Infinite Jest, and more.

These conversations showcase and illuminate the traits for which Wallace remains so beloved: his incomparable humility and enormous erudition, his wit, sensitivity, and humanity. As he eloquently describes his writing process and motivations, displays his curiosity by time and again turning the tables on his interviewers, and delivers thoughtful, idiosyncratic views on literature, politics, entertainment and discipline, and the state of modern America, a fuller picture of this remarkable mind is revealed.

About the Author

David Foster Wallace (1962-2008) was an award-winning novelist, short-story writer, and essayist. He is best known for his 1996 novel Infinite Jest. Frequently referred to as the voice of his generation, he won a multitude of prizes and accolades before committing suicide in 2008.