{"product_id":"conversations-with-david-foster-wallace-9781617032264","title":"Conversations with David Foster Wallace","description":"Across two decades of intense creativity, David Foster Wallace (1962-2008) crafted a remarkable body of work that ranged from unclassifiable essays to a book about transfinite mathematics to vertiginous fictions. Whether through essay volumes (\u003ci\u003eA Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Consider the Lobster\u003c\/i\u003e), short story collections (\u003ci\u003eGirl with Curious Hair, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Oblivion\u003c\/i\u003e), or his novels (\u003ci\u003eInfinite Jest, The Broom of the System\u003c\/i\u003e), the luminous qualities of Wallace's work recalibrated our measures of modern literary achievement. \u003ci\u003eConversations with David Foster Wallace\u003c\/i\u003e gathers twenty-two interviews and profiles that trace the arc of Wallace's career, shedding light on his omnivorous talent. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Jonathan Franzen has argued that, for Wallace, an interview provided a formal enclosure in which the writer \"could safely draw on his enormous native store of kindness and wisdom and expertise.\" Wallace's interviews create a wormhole in which an author's private theorizing about art spill into the public record. Wallace's best interviews are vital extra-literary documents, in which we catch him thinking aloud about his signature concerns--irony's magnetic hold on contemporary language, the pale last days of postmodernism, the delicate exchange that exists between reader and writer. At the same time, his acute focus moves across MFA programs, his negotiations with religious belief, the role of footnotes in his writing, and his multifaceted conception of his work's architecture. \u003ci\u003eConversations with David Foster Wallace\u003c\/i\u003e includes a previously unpublished interview from 2005, and a version of Larry McCaffery's influential \u003ci\u003eReview of Contemporary Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e interview with Wallace that has been expanded with new material drawn from the original raw transcript.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephen J. Burn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/13\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Literary Conversations\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.06lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781617032264","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45606493126793,"sku":"9781617032264","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_22bbd850-d4de-45b4-bbbd-614c6d4c515c.jpg?v=1776752663","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/conversations-with-david-foster-wallace-9781617032264","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}