A Five Dials special, celebrating the life and work of David Foster Wallace
1962 – 2008
These tributes were given on 23 October, 2008 at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, New York University, and are reproduced here with the kind permission of the authors and of Bonnie Nadell, David Foster Wallace’s literary agent and longtime friend.
Copyright in each tribute remains with its author.
Talks and readings by
Amy Wallace-Havens
Bonnie Nadell
Gerry Howard
Colin Harrison
Michael Pietsch
Don Delillo
Zadie Smith
George Saunders
Jonathan Franzen
Artwork by Michael Schmelling