CD Audiobook
David Foster Wallace : in his own words / David Foster Wallace ; [introduction written and read by John Jeremiah Sullivan].
Record details
- ISBN: 9781478900733
- ISBN: 1478900733
- Physical Description: 8 audio discs (540 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: New York : Hachette Audio, [2014]
- Copyright: ℗2014
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Title from disc surface. Compact disc. "Includes live and studio recordings"--Container. "Selected pieces"--Container. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Disc 1. Introduction by John Jeremiah Sullivan -- Interview with Judith Strasser on "To the Best of Our Knowledge" (Wisconsin Public Radio) -- Interview from The Leonard Lopate Show (WNYC Radio) -- Brief interviews with hideous men -- Discs 2-3. Brief interviews with hideous men -- Disc 4. Brief interviews with hideous men -- Reading of "Another pioneer" (The University of Arizona Poetry Center) -- Consider the lobster -- Discs 5-7. Consider the lobster -- Disc 8. Conversation with Rick Moody at the Herbst Theater (City Arts & Lectures, San Francisco) -- This is water. |
| Creation/Production Credits Note: | Produced and edited by Michele McGonigle. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by the author. |
| Summary, etc.: | Collected here for the first time are the stories and speeches of David Foster Wallace as read by the author himself. Some of the pieces collected here are: 'Another Pioneer,' recorded at The University of Arizona Poetry Center; stories from Brief Interviews with Hideous Men and Consider the Lobster; and the unforgettable 'This Is Water,' his 2005 commencement address given at Kenyon College. |
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| Subject: | Wallace, David Foster > Interviews. Authors, American > 20th century > Interviews. |
| Genre: | Audiobooks. Short stories. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.
Author Notes
David Foster Wallace: in His Own Words
Writer David Foster Wallace was born in Ithaca, New York on February 21, 1962. He received a B.A. from Amherst College in Massachusetts. He was working on his master's degree in creative writing at the University of Arizona when he published his debut novel The Broom of the System (1987). Wallace published his second novel Infinite Jest (1996) which introduced a cast of characters that included recovering alcoholics, foreign statesmen, residents of a halfway house, and high-school tennis stars. He spent four years researching and writing this novel. His first collection of short stories was Girl with Curious Hair (1989). He also published a nonfiction work titled Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present. He committed suicide on September 12, 2008 at the age of 46 after suffering with bouts of depression for 20 years. (Bowker Author Biography)
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