On Tennis – Five Essays by David Foster WallaceRequirements: .MP3 reader, 164.7 MB Overview: A “long-time rabid fan of tennis,” and a regionally ranked tennis player in his youth, David Foster Wallace wrote about the game like no one else. ON TENNIS presents David Foster Wallace’s five essays on the sport, published between 1990 and […]
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster WallaceRequirements: .ePUB reader, 401 KBOverview: In his startling and singular new short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence. Venturing inside minds and landscapes that are at once recognisable and utterly strange, these stories reaffirm Wallace’s reputation […]
David Foster Wallace’s Balancing Books: Fictions of Value by Jeffrey SeversRequirements: .ePUB reader, 1.0 MBOverview: “Jeffrey Severs offers one of the first critical works that examines the entirety of David Foster Wallace’s fiction rather than individual novels. Severs focuses his interpretation of Wallace’s work on the author’s interest in “value” understood in terms of the […]
Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity by David Foster WallaceRequirements: .ePUB reader, 3 MBOverview: Is infinity a valid mathematical property or a meaningless abstraction? David Foster Wallace brings his intellectual ambition and characteristic bravura style to the story of how mathematicians have struggled to understand the infinite, from the ancient Greeks to the […]
Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity by David Foster WallaceRequirements: .M4A/.M4B reader, 682 MBOverview: Is infinity a valid mathematical property or a meaningless abstraction? David Foster Wallace brings his intellectual ambition and characteristic bravura style to the story of how mathematicians have struggled to understand the infinite, from the ancient Greeks to the […]