ORDINARY UNHAPPINESS

In recent years, the American fiction writer David Foster Wallace has been treated as a symbol, as an icon, and even a film characte r. Ordinary Unhappiness returns us to the reason we all know about him in the first place: his fiction. By closely examining Infinit e Jest, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, and The Pale King, Jon Baskin points readers to the work at the center of Wallace's oeuvr e and places that writing in conversation with a philosophical tradition that includes Wittgenstein, Kierkegaard, and Cavell, among others. W...[Read more]