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David Foster Wallace (Author) David Foster Wallace was born in Ithaca, New York, in 1962 and raised in Illinois, where he was a regionally ranked junior tennis player. He received bachelor of arts degrees in philosophy and English from Amherst College and wrote what would beco.
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A Conversation with David Foster Wallace By Larry McCaffery From “The Review of Contemporary Fiction,” Summer 1993, Vol. 13.2 LARRY McCAFFERY: Your essay following this interview is going to be seen by some people as being basically an apology for television.
This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life is an essay by David Foster Wallace, first published in book form by Little, Brown and Company in 2009. The text originates from a commencement speech given by Wallace at Kenyon College on May 21, 2005. The essay was also published in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006 and in 2009 its.
In each of these essays, Wallace's observations are as keen as they are funny. Filled with hilarious details and invigorating analyses, these essays brilliantly expose the fault line in American culture - and once again reveal David Foster Wallace's extraordinary talent and gargantuan intellect.
The Tennis Essays of David Foster Wallace David Foster Wallace was fascinated by tennis for more than 30 years of his life. He was a highly ranked junior tennis player in the state of Illinois, played junior varsity tennis at Amherst College, and often challenged fellow writers to matches as a way to build friendships and assert a sense of masculine superiority (Max, 2012). Although Wallace.
David Wallace was born in 1962, in Ithaca, New York. His father, James, was a graduate student in philosophy. When David was three, his father took a job at the University of Illinois, in Urbana.