David Foster Wallace the most interesting contemporary author to me (though he's now dead).
Wallace seems to me to have touched on themes of how paralyzed modern men and women can become when making decisions with such a glut of information, how modern leisure can be a trap, and how easy it is to fall in depression and addiction in an increasingly isolated world. He unpacks all these ideas with an obsessive attetion to detail. I've never read anything quite like the fiction of DFW.
Before I got into Wallace by way of his essays in "A suposedly fun thing to do that I'll never do again." and "Infinite Jest" I was kind of consumed by beat writers like Kerouac and Burroughs, and Charles Bukowski, but Wallace and postmods like Don Dellilo have sort of opened me up to a new kind of prose.
Has anyone else read any David Foster Wallace?
Any further reading suggestions?
