Last month saw the launch of SkinneePix, an iPhone app by the company Pretty Smart Women that "helps you edit your Selfies to look 5, 10 or 15 lbs. skinnier in two quick clicks on your iPhone." ...

Today in books and publishing: 96-year-old Pulitzer Prize winner Herman Wouk gets a book deal, deconstructing Amazon's charitable ways, and a non-heartbreaking letter from David Foster Wallace to Don ...

The End of the Tour is the story of two novelists, the first who has become very famous very quickly, and the second whose greatest renown will derive from writing about the first. Over the course of ...

D.T. Max almost approached David Foster Wallace at a book release party, but ended up getting cold feet. It was only after writing an entire book about the famed recluse that Max could be sure he made ...

Apparently, I’m turning the anniversary of David Foster Wallace’s birthday into a Range annual event, but mostly this post is an excuse to link to The Awl’s collection of “46 Things to Read and See ...

Donald Margulies knew right away that Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself, a book about five days’ worth of conversations between Rolling Stone journalist David Lipsky and novelist David ...

In 2008, I found myself in Rome searching for The Savage Detectives by Chilean author Roberto Bolaño. The book was sold out, and the friendly clerk at the bookstore handed me Infinite Jest by David ...

I have to admit, I’ve probably demonized Justice Antonin Scalia, partially because he seems like an insufferable jerk, but I don’t know, I tend to think I could get along with anyone who’s a David ...

Out Feb. 6, 'David Lynch's American Dreamscape: Music, Literature, Cinema' explores how the late filmmaker inspired a generation of creatives, including singer Lana Del Rey and author David Foster ...

Marshall Boswell’s Understanding David Foster Wallace (2003) offered an excellent overview but didn’t cover Wallace’s later work. Baskin, however, focuses exclusively on Wallace’s fiction and ...