FICTION
Released: April 15, 2011
"Unfinished or no, it's worth reading this long, partly shaped novel just to get at its best moments, and to ponder what Wallace, that excellent writer, would have done with the book had he had time to finish it himself."
Rollicking postmodern romp, by the late cult-favorite novelist and essayist Wallace (with help from an editor), through the bowels of the IRS.
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NONFICTION
Released: April 13, 2010
"Still, a nicely gossipy inside view of a writer's world and a beautiful yet anguished mind."
My Dinner with Andre in a rental car--
Rolling Stone contributing editor Lipsky (
Absolutely American: Four Years at West Point, 2003, etc.) turns in a splintered portrait of the late, great novelist.
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 10, 2007
"Reliable and yet still surprising--the best of the best."
NONFICTION
Released: Dec. 12, 2005
"Should Wallace suggest an article on the behavior of a sack of hammers, the smart editor will give him a fat advance and all expenses paid."
Another savory, hard-thinking, wildly imaginative collection of essays and observations from the artful Wallace (
Oblivion, 2004, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: June 8, 2004
"One of our best young writers just keeps getting better."
Media overkill and other forms of contemporary paranoia and mendacity take their lumps in this third collection from the brainy postmodernist author (
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, 1999, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: May 28, 1999
"Still, Wallace is a witty guide to the fragmented, paranoid Way We Live Now, someone perhaps poised to become the 21st-century's Robert Benchley or James Thurber—both a frightening and a beguiling prospect."
A stimulating, if intermittently opaque, collection of discursive stories and even less fully fictionalized humorous pieces from the savvy-surrealistic author of Infinite Jest (1996), etc. Though few of the tales here contain conventionally developed characters or narrative situations, most feature instantly recognizable generic figures.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 12, 1997
This collection of essays by hot novelist Wallace (Infinite Jest, 1996, etc.) is sometimes tiresome but often truly rewarding.
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FICTION
Released: Feb. 19, 1996
"Almost certainly the biggest and boldest novel we'll see this year and, flaws and all, probably one of the best."
An ambitious and frequently brilliant fictional exploration of the pursuit of pleasure and its ramifying consequences, by the antic author of Girl with Curious Hair (1989), etc. In a manner both reminiscent and imitative of Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow (1973), Wallace traces the sometimes connected fortunes of two dozen or so addicted and obsessed souls variously involved with: the authoritarian cultivation of young minds and especially bodies at the Enfield (Mass.)
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