Endnotes, David Foster Wallace, BBC Documentary

Professor Geoff Ward discusses the life and works of David Foster Wallace When David Foster Wallace hanged himself in 2008, at the age of 46, he was considered by many to be the most gifted and linguistically exuberant American novelist and short story writer of his generation. His books include the 1, 000page Infinite Jest, a novel of grand ambition and stylistic experiment that came complete with 388 endnotes. (Footnotes, digressions, constant second guessing of every thought are features of Wallace s br, br,