Dec 22, 2009
From the publication of his first books, The Broom of the System in 1987 and Girl with Curious Hair in 1989, David Foster Wallace has shown himself to be a keen observer of American popular culture. In fiction and essays, his challenging prose has skewered American preconceptions, trends, and obsessions, particularly in terms of hipster culture and corporate chic. His mammoth novel Infinite Jest (1996) runs to more than one thousand pages; its publication revealed that the perspicacity of Wallace's insight was matched by his wildly ambitious energies. His ability to...
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