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  • Published: 15 April 2019
  • ISBN: 9781612197418
  • Imprint: Melville House
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $35.00

David Foster Wallace: The Last Interview Expanded with New Introduction

and Other Conversations




An expanded edition featuring new interviews and an introduction by the editor, a New York Times journalist and friend of the author

An expanded edition featuring new interviews and an introduction by the editor, a New York Times journalist and friend of the author

A unique selection of the best interviews given by David Foster Wallace, including the last he gave before his suicide in 2008. Complete with an introduction by Foster Wallace's friend and NY Times journalist, David Streitfeld. And including a new, never-before-published interview between Streitfeld and Wallace.

  • Published: 15 April 2019
  • ISBN: 9781612197418
  • Imprint: Melville House
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $35.00

About the author

David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace wrote the novels Infinite Jest and The Broom of the System, and the story collections Oblivion, Brief Interviews With Hideous Men and Girl With Curious Hair. His nonfiction includes Consider the Lobster, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Everything and More and This Is Water. Wallace was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award and a Whiting Writers' Award. He died in 2008.

'One of the most dazzling luminaries of contemporary American fiction.' Sunday Times

'One of the most influential novelists of his generation: capable of stunning articulacy, moral insight and industry.'Independent

'A dense, agonised, brilliant and moving body of work. It seems miraculous, even heroic, that Wallace achieved what he did.'Sam Leith, Literary Review

'One of those novelists who seem to push along the evolution of the form. You can recognize his prose style by a single sentence.' Benjamin Markovits, Observer

'A wonderfully exuberant comic writer and ironist, a writer of boundless imaginative gifts. His work will continue to be read long into the future.' Jason Cowley, New Statesman

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Praise for David Foster Wallace: The Last Interview Expanded with New Introduction

'The best mind of his generation' -- A O Scott, New York Times
'A prose magician... He could map the infinite and infinitesimal, the mythic and mundane.' -- Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
'In a culture that depletes you daily of your capacity for imagination, for language, for autonomous thought, complexity like Dave's is a gift.' -- Zadie Smith
'One of the big talents of his generation, a writer of virtuosic talents who can seemingly do anything' -- New York Times
'The funniest writer of his generation' -- Voice Literary Supplement

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