Editing David Foster Wallace (section)

===Nonfiction===
Wallace covered Senator [[John McCain]]'s [[John McCain 2000 presidential campaign|2000 presidential campaign]]<ref>{{Cite magazine |first=David Foster|last=Wallace|date=April 13, 2000 |title=The Weasel, Twelve Monkeys and The Shrub |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/18420304/the_weasel_twelve_monkeys_and_the_shrub/1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090519105330/http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/18420304/the_weasel_twelve_monkeys_and_the_shrub/1 |archive-date=May 19, 2009 |access-date=April 2, 2012 |url-status=dead |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.salon.com/2000/04/04/wallace_6/|title=David Foster Wallace: Ain't McCain Grand|website=[[Salon.com|Salon]]|date=April 4, 2000}}</ref> and the [[September 11 attacks]] for ''[[Rolling Stone]]'';<ref>{{Cite magazine |first=David Foster |last=Wallace |date=October 25, 2001 |title=9/11: The View From the Midwest |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/9-11-the-view-from-the-midwest-20110819 |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |issue=880}}</ref> cruise ships<ref>{{Cite magazine |first=David Foster |last=Wallace |date=January 1996 |title=Shipping Out |magazine=[[Harper's Magazine]] |format=PDF |url=http://harpers.org/archive/1996/01/shipping-out/}}</ref> (in what became the title essay of his first nonfiction book), [[state fair]]s, and [[tornado]]es for ''[[Harper's Magazine]]''; the [[US Open (tennis)|US Open]] tournament for ''[[Tennis (magazine)|Tennis]]'' magazine; [[Roger Federer]] for ''[[The New York Times]]'';<ref>{{Cite news |last=Wallace |first=David Foster |date=2006-08-20 |title=Roger Federer as Religious Experience |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/sports/playmagazine/20federer.html |access-date=2024-03-04 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> the director [[David Lynch]] and the [[Sex industry|pornography industry]] for ''[[Première (magazine)|Première]]'' magazine; the [[tennis]] player [[Michael Joyce (tennis)|Michael Joyce]] for ''[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]''; the movie-special-effects industry for ''[[Waterstones|Waterstone's]]'' magazine; conservative talk radio host [[John Ziegler (talk show host)|John Ziegler]] for ''[[The Atlantic]]'';<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Wallace |first=David Foster |date=April 2005 |title=Host |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200504/wallace |journal=[[The Atlantic|The Atlantic Monthly]]}}</ref> and a [[Maine]] lobster festival for ''[[Gourmet (magazine)|Gourmet]]'' magazine.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Wallace |first=David Foster |date=August 2004 |title=Consider the Lobster |url=http://www.columbia.edu/~col8/lobsterarticle.pdf |magazine=[[Gourmet (magazine)|Gourmet]] |pages=50–64}}</ref> He also reviewed books in several genres for the ''Los Angeles Times'', ''[[The Washington Post]]'', ''[[The New York Times]]'', and ''[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]''. In the November 2007 issue of ''The Atlantic'', which commemorated the magazine's 150th anniversary, Wallace was among the authors, artists, politicians and others who wrote short pieces on "the future of the American idea".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hoffmann |first=Lukas |title=Postirony: The Nonfictional Literature of David Foster Wallace and Dave Eggers |date=2016 |publisher=transcript |isbn=978-3-8376-3661-1 |location=Bielefeld, Germany}}</ref>

These and other essays appear in three collections, ''[[A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again]]'', ''[[Consider the Lobster]]'' and the posthumous ''[[Both Flesh and Not]]'', the last of which contains some of Wallace's earliest work, including his first published essay, "Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously Young".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Max |first=D. T. |date=November 14, 2012 |title=D.F.W.'s Nonfiction: Better with Age |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |url=http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/d-f-w-s-nonfiction-better-with-age |access-date=February 21, 2016 |issn=0028-792X}}</ref> Wallace's tennis writing was compiled into a volume titled ''String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis'', published in 2016.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Oregonian/OregonLive |first=Douglas Perry {{!}} The |date=2016-05-02 |title=David Foster Wallace's 'String Theory' defines Roger Federer, but that's only the beginning |url=https://www.oregonlive.com/the-spin-of-the-ball/2016/05/david_foster_wallaces_string_t.html |access-date=2024-03-04 |website=oregonlive |language=en}}</ref>
Some writers have found parts of Wallace's nonfiction implausible. [[Jonathan Franzen]] has said that he believes Wallace made up dialogue and incidents: "those things didn't actually happen".<ref name="A Supposedly True Thing Jonathan Franzen Said About David Foster Wallace">{{Cite web |last=Dean |first=Michelle |author-link=Michelle Dean |title=A Supposedly True Thing Jonathan Franzen Said About David Foster Wallace |url=https://theawl.com/a-supposedly-true-thing-jonathan-franzen-said-about-david-foster-wallace-8f37fd7c0bfd#.t1qt4lyho |access-date=December 25, 2016 |website=[[The Awl]] |archive-date=May 17, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170517081627/https://theawl.com/a-supposedly-true-thing-jonathan-franzen-said-about-david-foster-wallace-8f37fd7c0bfd#.t1qt4lyho |url-status=dead }}</ref> Of the essays "Shipping Out" and "Ticket to the Fair", John Cook has remarked that in Wallace's nonfiction: <blockquote>Wallace encounters pitch-perfect characters who speak comedically crystalline lines and place him in hilariously absurd situations...I used both stories [when teaching journalism] as examples of the inescapable temptation to shave, embellish, and invent narratives.<ref name="There Is No Such Thing as a ">{{Cite web |last=Cook |first=John |title=There Is No Such Thing as a 'Larger Truth': This American Life's Rich History of Embellishment |url=http://gawker.com/5894913/there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-larger-truth-this-american-lifes-rich-history-of-embellishment |access-date=December 25, 2016 |website=[[Gawker]]|date=March 21, 2012 }}</ref></blockquote>