“David Foster Wallace and the Nature of Fact” by Josh Roiland
This week Broad Street recommends Josh Roiland‘s Fall 2013 article “David Foster Wallace and the Nature of Fact,” which originally appeared in Literary Journalism Studies and was recently made available by the good people at Longreads. In the article, Roiland investigates accusations about Wallace’s literary journalism, including allegations of “embellishments” and invented dialogue. Roiland reminds us...
The String Theory
In honor of what would have been the 51st birthday of award-winning author David Foster Wallace, check out one of our favorite short essays of his, “The String Theory”. Originally published in the July 1996 issue of Esquire, the piece is “an obsessive inquiry (with footnotes) into the physics and metaphysics of tennis.” Read the full...
