Lannan Readings & Conversations
David Foster Wallace
with John O'BrienWednesday December 6 2000
David Foster Wallace is the author of the novel Infinite Jest; three short story collections, The Broom of the System, The Girl with Curious Hair, and Brief Interviews with Hideous Men; and a collection of essays, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again. Mr. Wallace, who received a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction in 1996, teaches at Illinois State University in Bloomington. Mr. Wallace worked on his new fiction during his residency.
John O'Brien is the editor of the Dalkey Archive Press, one of the finest independent literary presses in the country.
