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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
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by David Foster WallaceDavid Foster Wallace
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These widely acclaimed essays from the author of Infinite Jest on television, tennis, cruise ships, and more established David Foster Wallace as one of the preeminent essayists of his generation. In this exuberantly praised book a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean luxury cruiseliner David Foster Wallace brings to nonfiction the same curiosity, hilarity, and exhilarating verbal facility that has delighted readers of his fiction, including the bestselling Infinite Jest.
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ISBN-13: | 9780316925280 |
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Publisher: | Little, Brown and Company |
Publication date: | 02/02/1998 |
Edition description: | Reprint |
Pages: | 368 |
Sales rank: | 30,782 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.00(d) |
About the 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 become his first novel, The Broom of the System, as his senior English thesis. He received a masters of fine arts from University of Arizona in 1987 and briefly pursued graduate work in philosophy at Harvard University. His second novel, Infinite Jest, was published in 1996. Wallace taught creative writing at Emerson College, Illinois State University, and Pomona College, and published the story collections Girl with Curious Hair, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Oblivion, the essay collections A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, and Consider the Lobster. He was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, and a Whiting Writers' Award, and was appointed to the Usage Panel for The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. He died in 2008. His last novel, The Pale King, was published in 2011.
Date of Birth:
February 21, 1962Date of Death:
September 12, 2008Place of Birth:
Ithaca, NYPlace of Death:
Claremont, CAEducation:
B.A. in English & Philosophy, Amherst College, 1985;MFA, University of Arizona, 1987Customer Reviews
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