Dr Tony Shaw

In an interview with Helena de Bertodano for the Telegraph when Freedom  was first published, Jonathan Franzen said the main function of a ...

On the day of his suicide in September 2008, David Foster Wallace left lamps shining on a partial manuscript on his workdesk in his garag...

Inman Square is in Cambridge, but away from the center, and describes the area around the junction between Inman, Cambridge, and Hampshir...

Just click on the title, then click on 'Listen' for Michael Silverblatt's 29-minute radio interview.

Why write about such a well-established novel when David Foster Wallace's new (and of course posthumous) one The Pale King has jus...

This is a very well informed article, entitled The Afterlife of David Foster Wallace by Jennifer Howard in The Chronicle of Higher Educatio...

David Lipsky's Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace is reviewed by Wyatt Mason in the...

A copy of David Foster Wallace's 2005 Course Syllabus at Pomona College, Claremont, CA – where he taught –has just come to my attention...

I was recently reading 'Grammar and American Usage' in David Foster Wallace's Consider the Lobster when I noticed that he ment...

Another thing Wallace mentions in the article 'Consider the Lobster' which had never occurred to me before is our tendency to use eu...

David Foster Wallace's article 'Consider the Lobster' , which he was originally commissioned to write about the Maine Lobster Fe...