David Foster Wallace

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By | January 01, 0001

David Foster Wallace's The Pale King

Final words
All I can do is tell you how I read the book.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN | April 13, 2011

Does this book make me look smart?

Somervillian mocks the cult of David Foster Wallace with Tumblr-tastic 'People Holding Infinite Jest'
The first and only complete passage of Infinite Jest Chris Braiotta ever read was tattooed on somebody's calf.
By EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | April 13, 2011

Authors talking: Spring readings in Boston

By ear
America’s best young novelist, Britain’s most popular mystery writer, a bearded indie rocker, and a dead master populate this spring’s mandatory literary events.
By EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | March 17, 2011

11 Fictional glimpses of the Boston of tomorrow

Futures past
The history of the future is not long.
By PHOENIX STAFF | August 08, 2011

11 Fictional glimpses of the Boston of tomorrow

Futures past
The history of the future is not long.
By PHOENIX STAFF | August 08, 2011

By | January 01, 0001

Review: On the road with David Foster Wallace

David Lipsky’s Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself treads lightly in the footsteps of a literary giant
David Foster Wallace had a crush on Alanis Morissette. He drank Diet Rite soda by the case. David Lynch changed him.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN | May 17, 2010

Nervous guy

Rhett Miller’s anxious and irresistible pop songs
In his better solo songs and the majority of the material he’s made with the alt-country band Old 97’s, Rhett Miller is a big-mouthed wannabe playboy on the verge of collapse.
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | March 24, 2010

Three-hour tours

Lessons from a cruise-ship trip to Portland
They crowd our sidewalks, wearing lobster hats and carrying LL Bean bags, from August through October. We’re told about how their presence is vital to our economy.
By DEIRDRE FULTON | November 04, 2009

Review: Brief Interviews With Hideous Men

John Krasinski takes on David Foster Wallace and succeeds
Bleeding admiration for the David Foster Wallace stories on which it’s based, John Krasinski’s directorial debut follows Sara Quinn (Julianne Nicholson) as she interviews men about their sexual proclivities for her master’s thesis.
By JASON O'BRYAN | November 05, 2009

Endurance Reads

Summer-Book Therapy Sessions
Beach reading . The very phrase is abhorrent to book lovers, connoting as it does cheap paperbacks, tumescent with air-dried seawater and crunchy with sand, paragraph after paragraph of poorly written pulp meant to be read as fast as the passing of summer itself.
By MIKE MILIARD | June 17, 2009

Eating like tourists

Are Portland restaurants captive to visitors' dollars?
This year Portland's restaurant "scene" seemed to nudge its way into the consciousness of the national food media
By BRIAN DUFF | December 23, 2008

We got everything

Frank Hopkins discovers the American Dream
Hopkins vented with Doomsday . Here he as produced something more measured, and, in the end, more long-lasting.
By SAM PFEIFLE | November 19, 2008

Hardly getting over it

David Foster Wallace, 1962-2008
As you probably know by now, on September 12 Wallace hung himself after a long battle with depression.
By DAVID ANDREW STOLER | September 25, 2008

Portland scene report: September 18, 2008

Sibilance
RIP David Foster Wallace. Hey, man, we stole a ton of our style from you.
By PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | September 17, 2008

David Foster Wallace — 1962–2008

Overhead baggage
A story called “Forever Overhead” by David Foster Wallace appeared in the 1992 edition of Best American Short Stories .
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN | September 26, 2008

Capital loss

How has moving from Boston to Washington changed the Atlantic ?
Two things stood out when the book tour for an impressive new anthology, The American Idea: The Best of the Atlantic Monthly , rolled through town this past month.
By ADAM REILLY | November 05, 2007

Black lights

Cold War Kids + Muse, Agganis Arena, August 11, 2007
Grids pulsed behind them on three screens, and Matthew Bellamy keened softly, “You will burn in Hell.”
By ELLEE DEAN | August 13, 2007

Digital strips

The rise of webcomics and four artists leading the way
In the not-too-distant past, telling someone you were interested in webcomics was met with awkward stares and changes of subject. (Trust me.)
By JOE BERNARDI | July 10, 2007

Mass marketing

George Saunders’s tragic-comic consumers
Everyone who reads him knows that George Saunders is one of the funniest writers at work today. What’s less remarked on is his capacity to wrench pathos from comedy.
By JOHN FREEMAN | May 02, 2006

Interview: David Foster Wallace

Talking about fiction, fellatio and meddling editors with the only American essayist who uses "like" as punctuation.
Editor's Note: This story originally appeared in the February 20, 1998 edition of the Boston Phoenix .
By TOM SCOCCA | November 30, 2010