David Foster Wallace
It was a weekend of sad news, including that of David Foster Wallace’s suicide. Appreciations of his work are now pouring out, including one by Michiko Kakutani, the famously hard-to-please NYT critic. Here are just a few:
- New York Times, Exuberant Riffs on a Land Run Amok
- Time Magazine, Appreciation: David Foster Wallace 1962-2008
- Blogcritics, Remembering David Foster Wallace (1962-2008)
- Newsweek, David Foster Wallace, 1962-2008
Perhaps the greatest tribute is the number of people who are buying his books. Infinite Jest is now at #14 on the Amazon list (it was at #57,895 before his death).
Below are Wallace’s titles that have moved into Amazon’s top 500:
#14 Infinite Jest
- Paperback: $17.99, 1104 pages
- Publisher: Back Bay Books; 10 Anv edition (November 13, 2006)
- ISBN-10: 0316066524
- ISBN-13: 978-0316066525
#38 A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
- Paperback: #14.99
- Publisher: Back Bay Books (February 2, 1998)
- ISBN-10: 0316925284
- ISBN-13: 978-0316925280
#44 Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays
- Paperback: $14.99
- Publisher: Back Bay Books (July 2, 2007)
- ISBN-10: 0316013323
- ISBN-13: 978-031601332
#187 Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
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- Paperback: $14.99
- Publisher: Back Bay Books (April 1, 2000)
- ISBN-10: 0316925195
- ISBN-13: 978-0316925198
- Paperback: $14.95; 373 pages
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (March 1996)
- ISBN-10: 0393313964
- ISBN-13: 978-0393313963
#340 McCain’s Promise: Aboard the Straight Talk Express with John McCain and a Whole Bunch of Actual Reporters, Thinking About Hope
- Paperback: $9.99
- Publisher: Back Bay Books; 1st Back Bay Paperback Ed edition (June 1, 2008)
- ISBN-10: 0316040533
- ISBN-13: 978-0316040532
- Paperback: $14.96;336 pages
- Publisher: Back Bay Books (August 30, 2005)
- ISBN-10: 0316010766
- ISBN-13: 978-0316010764
- Paperback: $16; 480 pages
- Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) (May 25, 2004)
- ISBN-10: 0142002429
- ISBN-13: 978-0142002421