How the David Foster Wallace archive found a home at the Ransom Center
Materials and books from David Foster Wallace archive. Photo by Anthony Maddaloni.The journey an archive takes from an author’s desk to the Ransom Center is often long and circuitous. The archive of...
View ArticleInfinite Possibilities: A first glimpse into David Foster Wallace’s library
David Foster Wallace's copy of 'The Cinema Book.' Photo by Pete Smith.Approximately 200 books from David Foster Wallace’s library arrived at the Ransom Center with his papers. When the staff unpacked...
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First pages of a handwritten draft of 'Infinite Jest' by David Foster Wallace.Bonnie Nadell, longtime literary agent of David Foster Wallace, shares her thoughts on what scholars can learn from...
View ArticleDavid Foster Wallace’s library: Dog ears, coffee rings, duct tape, and heavy...
Books from David Foster Wallace's library. Photo by Anthony Maddaloni.Jacqueline Muñoz, librarian at the Ransom Center, cataloged more than 300 books from David Foster Wallace’s archive. Here, she...
View ArticleEnglish Honors seminar course on David Foster Wallace gives undergraduates a...
Graduate intern Jenn Shapland, center, shares annotated books from Wallace’s library and research materials he used while writing “Infinite Jest.” Photo by Pete Smith. Before spring of last year, I had...
View ArticleUnpublished David Foster Wallace story donated to the Ransom Center
The Ransom Center’s extensive David Foster Wallace collection was recently enriched by a donation of the original manuscript of a little-known, unpublished story, titled “Shorn.” Wallace wrote the...
View ArticleDavid Foster Wallace and 20 years of Infinite Jest
Twenty years ago, in February of 1996, Little, Brown and Company published David Foster Wallace’s (1962–2008) novel Infinite Jest. It was a bold undertaking for the firm to publish a complex,...
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