
June 25, 2014
A Lost 1996 Interview with David Foster...
In February 1996, David Foster Wallace came to Boston. He was the not-quite recognized writer of the massive book, Infinite Jest, which was just beginning...| More

January 23, 2014
Sven Birkerts: Present at the Creation of...
Sven Birkerts is a literary critic and essayist as well as a professor at Boston University and the editor of the literary quarterly AGNI. He was...| More

January 22, 2014
D.T. Max on David Foster Wallace’s Boston
It was David Foster Wallace’s fine biographer D. T. Max who remarked to me months ago that the Boston dimensions of Wallace and his masterpiece...| More

January 22, 2014
David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Boston
Here’s how to read David Foster Wallace’s thousand-page door stop and masterpiece Infinite Jest: it’s a Boston novel the way Ulysses is a Dublin novel,...| More