David Foster Wallace: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

By David Foster Wallace

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction

This short book collects interviews with David Foster Wallace, the author of Infinite Jest, including the last one he gave before his death in 2008. In the conversations Wallace talks about writing, reading, television, entertainment, depression, language and the state of American culture. The interviews show his humor, intelligence, anxiety and self-awareness, and together they give an intimate view of how one of the most influential writers of his generation thought.

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• Shane Parrish: “A.O. Scott of the New York Times called DFW “the best mind of his generation.” This short book offers an intimate look at his thoughts on the state of modern culture, entertainment, adulthood, and literature”