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...el; "Girl With Curious Hair," an envelope-stretching book of stories; and, with Mark Costello, a nonfiction work, "Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the ...ter's imagination. How else to get a purchase on this work? It is as thick with narrative stuff as any novel in recent memory, but it has axial strands inv

...ther's alma mater, Amherst College, and majored in English and philosophy, with a focus on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/modal_logic logic] and mathematics ...oriam: David Foster Wallace '85 | Amherst College]</ref> Wallace graduated with ''summa cum laude'' honors for both theses in 1985 and next pursued a Maste

...to the graveyard scene in ''Hamlet'', in which the prince exchanges stares with Yorick's skull, recalling him as "a fellow of infinite jest." But "Infinite ...pic preposterousness) and a ''Lolita'' (salted clues, interlinked motifs), with white-knuckle suspense and gross-out violence right out of Stephen King.

...e Jest'' is also an exhilarating, breathtaking experience. This book teems with so much life and death, so much hilarity and pain, so much gusto in the fac ...e is fighting, fiercely and usually successfully, to capture the ineffable with the only weapon at our disposal, language.

...L DEfined the novel as a long narrative that tends to have something wrong with it, he did not mean printer's errors. But that was precisely what concerned Wrong. Wallace may look like a carefree Frisbee player with his ponytail and head hankie, but he has the soul of an old-fashioned inkst

...890 (see also p.26); "The truth will set you free, but not until it's done with you" 973; "Addicts Don't Have Relationships, They Take Hostages" fn.292/105 ...ection of Revere"; wife "needs Valium just to floss" 59; 818; 821; talking with Pat M. about apologizing to Gately, 960; wears a Stetson w/feather, fn.14/9