Drinking at the End of the World: Lars Iyer's Exodus 5

Enduring the everyday is relatively straightforward -- just keep breathing and putting one foot in front of the other -- but how to transcend the everyday, in this world neither you nor I have made?

A Year in Reading: Antoine Wilson 0

It left me inarticulate and emotional, as if I'd been zapped back in time to the broodiest moments of my childhood.

The Millions Top Ten: November 2012 0

A last hurrah for our number one, and a new collection of essays from a master who is missed.

“The Human Heart is a Chump”: Cataloging The Pale King 21

I am the cataloger of David Foster Wallace's final work, The Pale King, and I'm here to tell you that in cases like these, the rules will only get you so far.

DFW, ctd. 0

A Supposedly Brief Interview with D.T. Max 1

It’s not really that David had any answers for people. But he never stops taking his life seriously and he never stops taking the reader’s life seriously. And I think that’s the connection: you never stop mattering to him and he never stops mattering to himself.

Excerpt: The Opening Paragraphs of D.T. Max's Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace 18

The first definitive treatment of David Foster Wallace's life arrives next week.