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David Foster Wallace

11 books · 8 readers

David Foster Wallace was an American writer of novels, short stories, and essays who also taught English and creative writing, best known for Infinite Jest (1996), a long novel partly set at a tennis academy. His short fiction was collected in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, and his essays in Consider the Lobster. He also wrote Everything and More, a history of infinity in set theory, before his death in 2008.

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  1. Infinite JestInfinite Jest19965.04 readers
  2. Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban PresentSignifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present19903.01 reader
  3. Brief Interviews with Hideous MenBrief Interviews with Hideous Men19994.01 reader
  4. Everything and More: A Compact History of InfinityEverything and More: A Compact History of Infinity20031 reader
  5. The Pale KingThe Pale King20111 reader

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11 books

1987

  1. The Broom of the System

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1990

  1. Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present

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    3.0(1)

1996

  1. Infinite Jest

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    5.0(2)

1999

  1. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

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    4.0(1)

2005

  1. Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

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  2. Consider the Lobster

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  3. Oblivion

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2011

  1. The Pale King

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