Infinite Rivalry: Jonathan Franzen and David Foster.

Jonathan Franzen’s Infinite Sadness An Elegy for David Foster Wallace Heather Cass White.. a Wallace favorite, would put it, consider the known facts: David Foster Wallace was a close friend of Jonathan Franzen’s. Wallace’s magnum opus is called Infinite Jest, a phrase from Hamlet. One of its protagonists, Hal Incandenza, is an avatar.

Why The End of the Tour isn't really about my friend David Foster Wallace. whenever Jonathan Franzen utters or publishes some pained but unsparing. I did not know David Foster Wallace as.

Wallace, Franzen, and the Truth in Non-Fiction. Jonathan Franzen said at the New Yorker Festival that David Foster Wallace made stuff up in “Shipping Out”, which is better known as the titular essay in the non-fiction collection A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again.Now, an initial read on the situation is that, because he’s a quantifiably worse writer than Wallace (by -97.333%.

Last week I was thinking about David Foster Wallace’s 2006 profile of Roger Federer in The New York Times’ ill-fated sports-themed Play magazine, and decided to reread it for the first time in a while. Though Wallace’s controversial reputation has rightfully been re-examined in recent years, the profile was the rare occasion of a great writer meeting a great athlete at their peak.

The Lost Years and Last Days of David Foster Wallace He was the greatest writer of his generation — and also its most tormented. In the wake of his tragic suicide, his friends and family reveal.

Nobody owns David Foster Wallace anymore.. In a 2011 New Yorker essay, Franzen named Wallace’s relationship to his own fame as the central battle of his adult life. He also gave voice to more.

Forget the Oprah-Franzen make-up session. Here are exclusive excerpts from Jonathan Franzen’s new interview with The Paris Review about why he writes, and David Foster Wallace.

Whether recalling his violent encounter with bird poachers in Cyprus, examining his feelings about the suicide of his friend and rival David Foster Wallace, or offering a moving and witty take on the ways that technology has changed how people express their love, these pieces deliver on Franzen’s implicit promise to conceal nothing.

Franzen, Wallace, Reading, and Isolation. By Jon Michau d.. boredom, and the death of his friend David Foster Wallace.. as Franzen notes, Wallace’s work was not depressive, and, although.

Rare bird: Jonathan Franzen weaves avian interest into new essay collection. By By Julia M. Klein.. to him and the writer David Foster Wallace, to camp along the Salton Sea. The sea, “a dying.

I had set out to review Jonathan Franzen’s newest release (Farther Away: Essays) with only one goal in mind — “Do Not Mention David Foster Wallace.”The constant invocation of one for the sake of the other, although reasonable enough, always struck me as the comparison every commentator can and will often needlessly draw.