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  • David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest

    A Reader's Guide

    by Stephen J. Burn ...
    Infinite Jest has been hailed as one the great modern American novels and its author, David Foster Wallace, who committed suicide in 2008, as one of the most influential and innovative authors of the past 20 years. Don DeLillo called Infinite Jest a "three-stage rocket to the future," a work "equal to the huge, babbling spin-out sweep of contemporary life," while Time Magazine included Infinite ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • Conversations with David Foster Wallace

    Edited by Stephen J. Burn ...
    Series series Literary Conversations Series
    Across two decades of intense creativity, David Foster Wallace (1962-2008) crafted a remarkable body of work that ranged from unclassifiable essays to a book about transfinite mathematics to vertiginous fictions. Whether through essay volumes (A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Consider the Lobster), short story collections (Girl with Curious Hair, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Paper Empire

    William Gaddis and the World System

    by Klaus Benesch, Nicholas Brown, Stephen J. Burn, Anja Zeidler, Anne Furlong, Tom LeClair, Joseph McElroy, Steven Moore, Stephen Schryer, Nicholas Spencer, Crystal K. Alberts, Dr. Michael Wutz, Dr. Jeff Bursey ...
    Celebrates and illuminates the legacy of one of America’s most innovative and consequential 20th century novelistsIn 2002, following the posthumous publication of William Gaddis’s collected nonfiction and his final novel and Jonathan Franzen’s lengthy attack on him in The New Yorker, a number of partisan articles appeared in support of Gaddis’s legacy. In a review in The London Review of Books, ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Jonathan Franzen at the End of Postmodernism

    by Stephen J. Burn ...
    Series series Continuum Literary Studies
    Jonathan Franzen is one of the most influential, critically-significant and popular contemporary American novelists. This book is the first full-length study of his work and attempts to articulate where American fiction is headed after postmodernism. Stephen Burn provides a comprehensive analysis of each of Franzen's novels - from his early work to the major success of The Corrections - ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • American Literature in Transition, 1990–2000

    Edited by Stephen J. Burn ...
    Series series American Literature in Transition
    Written in the shadow of the approaching millennium, American literature in the 1990s was beset by bleak announcements of the end of books, the end of postmodernism, and even the end of literature. Yet, as conservative critics marked the century's twilight hours by launching elegies for the conventional canon, American writers proved the continuing vitality of their literature by reinvigorating ... Read more

    $118.09 USD

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  • Infinite Jest

    by David Foster Wallace ...
    The 30th anniversary edition of the virtuosic, wickedly comic modern classic about the pursuit of happiness in America, with a new foreword by Michelle Zauner, author of the New York Times bestselling sensation Crying in H Mart.“To my mind, there have been two great American novels in the past fifty years. Catch-22 is one; this is the other.” —Stephen King, Entertainment WeeklySet in an addicts’ ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Consider the Lobster

    And Other Essays

    by David Foster Wallace ...
    This celebrated collection of essays from the author of Infinite Jest is "brilliantly entertaining...Consider the Lobster proves once more why Wallace should be regarded as this generation's best comic writer" (Cleveland Plain Dealer).Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: An Essay (Digital Original)

    by David Foster Wallace ...
    Beloved for his keen eye, sharp wit, and relentless self-mockery, David Foster Wallace has been celebrated by both critics and fans as the voice of a generation. In this hilarious essay, originally published in the collection A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, he chronicles seven days in the Caribbean aboard the m.v. Zenith. As he partakes in supposedly fun activities offered on the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Gravity's Rainbow

    by Thomas Pynchon ...
    **Winner of the National Book Award"The most profound and accomplished American novel since the end of World War II." —The New Republic**“A screaming comes across the sky. . .” A few months after the Germans’ secret V-2 rocket bombs begin falling on London, British Intelligence discovers that a map of the city pinpointing the sexual conquests of one Lieutenant Tyrone Slothrop, U.S. Army, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • H Is for Hawk

    by Helen Macdonald ...
    Now a Major Motion Picture starring Claire Foy and Brendan GleesonOne of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st CenturyOne of Kirkus Reviews’s Best Books of the 21st CenturyOne of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the YearOne of Slate's 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Last 25 YearsON MORE THAN 25 BEST B... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Luminaries

    by Eleanor Catton ...
    The winner of the Man Booker Prize, this "expertly written, perfectly constructed" bestseller (The Guardian) is now a Starz miniseries.It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to stake his claim in New Zealand's booming gold rush. On the stormy night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of 12 local men who have met in secret to discuss a series of unexplained events: a wealthy man has ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Man Booker Prize Winner)

    A Novel

    by Richard Flanagan ...
    Series series Vintage International
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • A magisterial novel of love and war that traces the life of one man from World War II to the present.Available now on Prime Video: Justin Kurzel’s highly anticipated series based on this Booker Prize–winning novel by Richard Flanagan; starring Jacob Elordi, Ciarán Hinds, Odessa Young, Olivia DeJonge and Simon Baker."Magnificent." —*The New York ... Read more

    $11.99 USD