Infinite Jest is a 1996 novel by David Foster Wallace. The lengthy and complex work takes place in a semi-parodic future version of North America, and touches on substance addiction recovery programs, depression, child abuse, family relationships, advertising, popular entertainment, film theory, Quebec separatism, and tennis, among other topics.
The novel includes 388 numbered endnotes (some of which have footnotes of their own) that explain or expand on points in the story. In an interview with Charlie Rose, Wallace characterized them as a method of disrupting the linearity of the text while maintaining some sense of narrative cohesion.[1]
The novel was included by Time magazine in its list of the 100 best English-language novels published since 1923.[2]
As of 2006 (ten years after its publication), 150,000 copies of Infinite Jest had been sold and the book has continued to sell steadily.[3]
Wallace was 33 when the novel was published.

Finally back in print--David Foster Wallace and Mark Costello's exuberant exploration of rap music and culture.
Living together in Cambridge in 1989, David Foster Wallace and longtime friend Mark Costello discovered that they shared "an uncomfortable, somewhat furtive, and distinctively white enthusiasm for a certain music called rap/hip-hop." The book they wrote together, set against the legendary Boston music scene, mapped the bipolarities of rap and pop, rebellion and acceptance, glitz and gangsterdom. Signifying Rappers issued a fan's challenge to the giants of rock writing, Greil Marcus, Robert Palmer, and Lester Bangs: Could the new street beats of 1989 set us free, as rock had always promised? Back in print at last, Signifying Rappers is a rare record of a city and a summer by two great thinkers, writers, and friends. With a new foreword by Mark Costello on his experience writing with David Foster Wallace, this rerelease cannot be missed.

今年，你不能再错过的大卫·福斯特·华莱士；
被比尔·盖茨、乔纳森·弗兰岑、詹姆斯·伍德推崇的文学天才；
纽约时报、卫报、观察者报、洛杉矶时报、旧金山纪事报联合好评推荐。
因励志演讲火爆全球，却因抑郁症自杀。大卫·福斯特·华莱士的一生短暂似流星，却给世界留下了丰富的精神遗产。不读大卫·福斯特·华莱士的小说，是这个时代青年人的损失。
他用极端理性的语言描绘复杂的现代社会和畸形的人性感情。正是从这部作品开始，华莱士一步登上事业巅峰，令无数作家难以企及。如今，这部《系统的笤帚》已被评为影响美国社会的12部经典文学作品之一。
《系统的笤帚》是大卫·福斯特·华莱士年轻时写给所有年轻人的激情之书。书中一个个男男女女，都那么鲜活，经历着和我们一样的城市生活，在失望与痛苦中挣扎，逐渐沉沦为畸形之人。从这部小说也隐约可见作者的抑郁倾向。《自由》作者乔纳森·弗兰岑和大卫·福斯特·华莱士是终身挚友，两人也同为抑郁症所扰。悲剧发生后，弗兰岑曾撰写长文哀悼这位才华横溢到让他嫉妒的朋友。
《系统的笤帚》是大卫·福斯特·华莱士25岁时创作的处女作，文学天赋一览无遗，成为一部罕见的既被读者喜爱，又被对手敬重的伟大小说。华莱士一生创作的小说作品数量不多，却始终在文学界占据着独一无二的重要地位。
小说的男主人公是一个因为生殖器短小导致自卑从而引发了一系列心理问题的知识分子。他疯狂地爱上了一个比自己小18岁的女孩儿。这个女孩儿虽然身为家族企业的继承人，却做着收入很低的前台接线员工作，因为她也有着无法言说的心理问题。故事中几乎没有一个常规意义上的“正常人”，活着的每个人都有自己无法跨越的障碍，就像我们所在的现实世界一样，被情感、药物和沉沦包围着……作为人类，他们该如何与这个复杂的世界相处呢？
大卫·福斯特·华莱士在《系统的笤帚》中用极端理性的语言讲述了一个近乎疯狂的故事。他曾说：“小说的作用，就是告诉读者，身为人类这种动物，到底是他妈的一种什么滋味。”

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? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the three-ring circus of a vicious presidential race, plunging into the wars between dictionary writers, or confronting the World's Largest Lobster Cooker at the annual Maine Lobster Festival, Wallace projects a quality of thought that is uniquely his and a voice as powerful and distinct as any in American letters.

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, Oblivion), or his novels (Infinite Jest, The Broom of the System), the luminous qualities of Wallace's work recalibrated our measures of modern literary achievement. Conversations with David Foster Wallace gathers twenty-two interviews and profiles that trace the arc of Wallace's career, shedding light on his omnivorous talent
Jonathan Franzen has argued that, for Wallace, an interview provided a formal enclosure in which the writer "could safely draw on his enormous native store of kindness and wisdom and expertise." Wallace's interviews create a wormhole in which an author's private theorizing about art spill into the public record. Wallace's best interviews are vital extra-literary documents, in which we catch him thinking aloud about his signature concerns--irony's magnetic hold on contemporary language, the pale last days of postmodernism, the delicate exchange that exists between reader and writer. At the same time, his acute focus moves across MFA programs, his negotiations with religious belief, the role of footnotes in his writing, and his multifaceted conception of his work's architecture. Conversations with David Foster Wallace includes a previously unpublished interview from 2005, and a version of Larry McCaffery's influential Review of Contemporary Fiction interview with Wallace that has been expanded with new material drawn from the original raw transcript.

The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so tedious and repetitive that new employees receive boredom-survival training, he learns of the extraordinary variety of personalities drawn to this strange calling. And he has arrived at a moment when forces within the IRS are plotting to eliminate even what little humanity and dignity the work still has.
The Pale King remained unfinished at the time of David Foster Wallace's death, but it is a deeply compelling and satisfying novel, hilarious and fearless and as original as anything Wallace ever undertook. It grapples directly with ultimate questions--questions of life's meaning and of the value of work and society--through characters imagined with the interior force and generosity that were Wallace's unique gifts. Along the way it suggests a new idea of heroism and commands infinite respect for one of the most daring writers of our time.

In intimate and eloquent interviews, including the last he gave before his suicide, the writer hailed by A.O. Scott of The New York Times as “the best mind of his generation” considers the state of modern America, entertainment and discipline, adulthood, literature, and his own inimitable writing style. The volume includes among others interviews with Laura Miller, Dave Eggers, and the student magazine of Wallace's own alma mater, Amherst.

《所谓好玩的事，我再也不做了》是美国天才作家大卫·福斯特·华莱士非虚构经典作品，入选《时代》周刊“100部最佳非虚构英语作品”。
在这本备受赞誉的书中，收录了华莱士的7篇经典文章。从电视到网球，从伊利诺伊州的博览会到著名导演大卫·林奇的电影，从后现代文学理论到搭乘豪华游轮的七天七夜加勒比游，大卫·福斯特·华莱士以天才的文学禀赋、惊人的语言游戏和深沉的哲学思考，为世人描绘了光怪陆离的生活，以及我们内心的迷茫和孤独。

两条正值青春年少的鱼儿，肩并肩游着，遇到一条年长的鱼。
年长的鱼向他们点头打招呼，“早安啊，孩子们。水怎么样？”
这两条年轻的鱼继续往前游，其中一条终于忍不住，问道：“水到底是个什么东西？”
这是美国作家大卫•福斯特•华莱士2005年在肯扬学院毕业典礼上的演讲，从生活中最显而易见的平常之事入手，讨论如何摆脱生命中的重复单调，获得内心自由，保持意识的清醒鲜活。华莱士提醒我们，生命中最简单的事往往又是最困难的，比如 “在成人生活中，日复一日地保持清自觉与警醒,困难得不可想象。”
这场演讲当时默默无闻，之后却突然逆袭，演讲录音通过邮件和博客在朋友圈不断流转，引发广泛共鸣，后又有工作室根据录音制作了短视频，在Youtube上一个星期的点击量超过400万次。出书之后受到更大的关注，被《时代杂志》评为“对知识分子最后的演讲”，并与乔布斯的演讲一起入选“美国最具影响力的十大毕业演讲”。
遗憾的是，这位天才的作家却在3年后因严重的抑郁症自杀，这也让演讲更加震撼：生活不会总是一帆风顺，我们要学会提醒自己走出思维定势的泥沼；给你身边的人多点空间——因为你不知道他们正面对怎样的困苦。

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 Jest on its list of 100 Greatest Novels published between 1923-2006. David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest: A Reader's Guide was the first book to be published on the novel and is a key reference for those who wish to explore further. Infinite Jest has become an exemplar for difficulty in contemporary Fiction--its 1,079 pages full of verbal invention, oblique narration, and a scattered, nonlinear, chronology. In this comprehensively revised second edition, Burn maps Wallace's influence on contemporary American fiction, outlines Wallace's poetics, and provides a full-length study of the novel, drawing out the most important themes and ideas, before surveying Wallace's post-Infinite Jest output, including The Pale King.