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78-845: The awards reflect the philosophy governing the Lannan Foundation, a family foundation established by financier and art patron J. Patrick Lannan Sr. in 1960. It describes itself as "dedicated to cultural freedom, diversity and creativity through projects which support exceptional contemporary artists and writers, as well as inspired Native activists in rural indigenous communities." Awards have been made to acclaimed and varied literary figures such as David Foster Wallace , William Gaddis , Lydia Davis , William H. Gass , Steve Erickson and W. S. Merwin . The foundation has also recognized people known as much for their public intellectual activities as for their literary talents, such as Barbara Ehrenreich and Edward Said . The foundation also gives

156-536: A "Cultural Freedom Prize" for the stated purpose of recognizing "people whose extraordinary and courageous work celebrates the human right to freedom of imagination, inquiry, and expression." Prize winners include Claudia Andujar , Helen Caldicott , Julián Cardona , Elouise P. Cobell , Mahmoud Darwish , Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz , Robert Fisk , Eduardo Galeano , Arundhati Roy , Bryan Stevenson and Cornel West . The foundation does not accept applications for awards or fellowships. Candidates are suggested anonymously "by

234-733: A "Professor of the Year" award in 1996. From fourth grade, Wallace lived with his family in Urbana , where he attended Yankee Ridge Elementary School, Brookens Junior High School and Urbana High School . As an adolescent, Wallace was a regionally ranked junior tennis player. He wrote about this period in the essay "Derivative Sport in Tornado Alley", originally published in Harper's Magazine as "Tennis, Trigonometry, Tornadoes". Although his parents were atheists , Wallace twice attempted to join

312-488: A "Tree City" and to trees as landmarks or beacons. Mooney, an internationally acclaimed artist, is a native to Champaign-Urbana. The Urbana Indoor Aquatic Center is a public indoor pool operated by the Urbana Park District and Urbana School District. It is located between Urbana High School and Urbana Middle School. Crystal Lake Pool is a public outdoor pool. It is located on Broadway Street, across from

390-438: A 1997 interview on Charlie Rose , Wallace said that the notes were to disrupt the linear narrative, to reflect his perception of reality without jumbling the narrative structure, and that he could have jumbled the sentences "but then no one would read it". D. T. Max has described Wallace's work as an "unusual mixture of the cerebral and the hot-blooded", often featuring multiple protagonists and spanning different locations in

468-608: A different ward. The mayor is elected in a citywide vote. Urbana High School 's current building was built in 1914. It was designed by architect Joseph Royer who also designed many other area buildings such as the Urbana Free Library and the Champaign County Court House. The architecture is of the Tudor style defined primarily by the towers over the main entrance and flattened point arches over

546-554: A media-saturated society. Wallace's fiction combines narrative modes and authorial voices that incorporate jargon and invented vocabulary, such as self-generated abbreviations and acronyms, long, multi- clause sentences, and an extensive use of explanatory endnotes and footnotes, as in Infinite Jest and the story "Octet" (collected in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men ), and most of his non-fiction after 1996. In

624-572: A network of writers, literary scholars, publishers, and editors," with the foundation's literary committee making the final determination. The foundation also "provides financial assistance to tribes and nonprofits that serve Native American communities..." For instance, it gave more than $ 7 million in grants to the Blackfeet Reservation Development Fund from 1998 to 2009, to support litigation on behalf of Native Americans with interests in trust lands. This nonprofit

702-545: A new name, Urbana Landmark Hotel, on December 1, 2012, but it closed in July 2015 and sold January 2020 for redevelopment as a Hilton Tapestry hotel. Carle Park, established in 1909, is located at Indiana and Garfield, just west of Urbana High School in central Urbana. Measuring 8.3 acres (34,000 m ), it contains a statue entitled Lincoln the Lawyer by Lorado Taft and more than 50 well-established trees that are part of

780-460: A new state agricultural school, thanks to the efforts of Clark Griggs. Illinois Industrial University, which would evolve into the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign , opened in 1868 with 77 students. A number of efforts to merge Urbana and Champaign have failed at the polls. On October 9, 1871, a fire burned much of downtown Urbana. Children playing with matches started the fire. (It

858-651: A predilection for dogs who'd been abused, and [were] unlikely to find other owners who were going to be patient enough for them". In the early 1990s, Wallace was in a relationship with writer Mary Karr . She later described Wallace as obsessive about her and said the relationship was volatile, with Wallace once throwing a coffee table at her as well as physically forcing her out of a car, leaving her to walk home. In 2018, she alleged that Wallace's biographer D. T. Max underreported Wallace's abuse. Of Max's account of their relationship, she tweeted: "That's about 2% of what happened." She said that Wallace kicked her, climbed up

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936-852: A private two-page suicide note to his wife, arranged part of the manuscript for The Pale King , and hanged himself on the back porch of his house in Claremont, California. Memorial gatherings were held at Pomona College, Amherst College, the University of Arizona, Illinois State University, and on October 23, 2008, at New York University (NYU). The eulogists at NYU included his sister, Amy Wallace-Havens; his literary agent, Bonnie Nadell; Gerry Howard , editor of his first two books; Colin Harrison , an editor at Harper's Magazine ; Michael Pietsch, editor of Infinite Jest and later works; Deborah Treisman, fiction editor at The New Yorker magazine; and

1014-476: A research-level collection on the history and genealogy of Champaign County. In 1987 it was designated the official repository for non-current Champaign County records. Although it focuses on Champaign County, the Archives holds extensive collections of works dealing with the rest of Illinois and those states that document the significant migration routes of the communities that comprise Champaign County. The CCHA

1092-602: A senior thesis in philosophy and modal logic that was awarded the Gail Kennedy Memorial Prize and posthumously published as Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free Will (2010). Wallace adapted his honors thesis in English as the manuscript of his first novel, The Broom of the System (1987), and committed to being a writer. He told David Lipsky : "Writing The Broom of the System , I felt like I

1170-581: A shelter are located near the Race Street entrance. The park also contains many streams which are among the first tributaries of the Embarras River . The Urbana Dog Park, located on East Perkins Road, is a place to walk one's dog without a leash. The Anita Purves Nature Center, located on the north end of Crystal Lake Park, offers nature education programs. The "Art in the Park", just north of

1248-480: A single work. His writing comments on the fragmentation of thought, the relationship between happiness and boredom, and the psychological tension between the beauty and hideousness of the human body. According to Wallace, "fiction's about what it is to be a fucking human being", and he said he wanted to write "morally passionate, passionately moral fiction" that could help the reader "become less alone inside". In his Kenyon College commencement address, Wallace described

1326-661: A stage play in 2000 by Dylan McCullough. This was the first theatrical adaptation of Wallace's work. The play, Hideous Men , was also directed by McCullough, and premiered at the New York International Fringe Festival in August 2000. Brief Interviews was also adapted by director Marc Caellas as a play, Brief Interviews with Hideous Writers , which premiered at Fundación Tomás Eloy Martinez in Buenos Aires on November 4, 2011. In 2012 it

1404-590: A tuxedo T-shirt while eating in the ship's dining room. The 2015 film The End of the Tour is based on conversations David Lipsky had with Wallace, transcribed in Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself (2010). Jason Segel played Wallace, and Jesse Eisenberg Lipsky. The film won an Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at the Sarasota Film Festival , and Segel was nominated for

1482-522: Is a part) that enjoy any significant relation to the television whose weird, pretty hand has my generation by the throat. I'm going to argue that irony and ridicule are entertaining and effective, and that, at the same time, they are agents of a great despair and stasis in U.S. culture, and that, for aspiring fictionists, they pose terrifically vexing problems. Wallace used many forms of irony, but tended to focus on individual persons' continued longing for earnest, unself-conscious experience and communication in

1560-564: Is also home to the Local History Online database. Local History Online gives access to holdings (books and journals, Champaign County records, City of Urbana municipal records, newspapers, directories, school yearbooks, images, maps, oral histories, local organization newsletters, and other special collections) of the Champaign County Historical Archives, including digital content. The catalog

1638-618: Is an annual festival in Urbana. It was first held in August 1975 in the Busey Bank parking lot in downtown Urbana. It was a community event put on by employees of Busey Bank. Since then the Sweetcorn Festival has continued to grow. The Urbana Business Association is now responsible for the planning of the festival, over the years adding a local car show, an expanded family area, live music on multiple stages, food, vendors, beer, in

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1716-521: Is called Candlestick Lane because every year the residents decorate their yards for Christmas with a lot of lights and figures. The tradition began in 1961 (maybe 1960) as a house-decorating contest sponsored by the Illinois Power Company. The neighborhood used its prize money to purchase electric candlesticks for each home. The City of Urbana installs special red and green street signs, reading "Candlestick Lane" and "Grant Place" during

1794-722: Is closest to the University of Illinois, while the Cunningham exit goes to downtown Urbana. The University exit goes to downtown Urbana as well as Illinois Route 130 to Philo . Local bus service is primarily provided by the Champaign–Urbana Mass Transit District , although limited service is available from Champaign County Area Rural Transit System and Danville Mass Transit , operators which primarily serve Rantoul and Danville respectively. The Norfolk Southern operates an east to west line through Urbana. The NS line connects industries in eastern Urbana to

1872-648: Is frequently updated. The library is publicly funded and receives additional support from about 600 people who have joined the Friends of the Urbana Free Library. FM radio AM radio Analog television Digital television (DTV) Print Downtown Urbana is located southwest of the intersection of its two busiest streets: U.S. 150 (University Avenue) and U.S. 45 (Vine Street-Cunningham Avenue). Most of Urbana lies south of I-74 . There are three exits (from west to east): Lincoln (I-74 milepost 183), Cunningham (184) and University (185). The Lincoln exit

1950-517: Is that you get to decide how you're going to try to see it. You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't. ... The trick is keeping the truth up-front in daily consciousness. Wallace covered Senator John McCain 's 2000 presidential campaign and the September 11 attacks for Rolling Stone ; cruise ships (in what became the title essay of his first nonfiction book), state fairs , and tornadoes for Harper's Magazine ;

2028-472: Is unrelated to the Great Chicago Fire that started the day before, though both fires occurred during severe drought and were spread by high winds.) According to the 2021 census gazetteer files, Urbana has a total area of 11.90 square miles (30.82 km ), of which 11.83 square miles (30.64 km ) (or 99.40%) is land and 0.07 square miles (0.18 km ) (or 0.60%) is water. Urbana borders

2106-533: The 2020 census there were 38,336 people, 17,295 households, and 6,680 families residing in the city. The population density was 3,220.97 inhabitants per square mile (1,243.62/km ). There were 18,321 housing units at an average density of 1,539.32 per square mile (594.33/km ). The racial makeup of the city was 51.61% White , 18.86% African American , 0.30% Native American , 18.26% Asian , 0.03% Pacific Islander , 3.57% from other races , and 7.37% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 8.52% of

2184-586: The Aga Khan Prize for Fiction , awarded by editors of The Paris Review for one of the stories in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men , which had been published in the magazine. In 2002, Wallace moved to Claremont, California , to become the first Roy E. Disney endowed Professor of Creative Writing and Professor of English at Pomona College . He taught one or two undergraduate courses per semester and focused on writing. Wallace delivered

2262-540: The Catholic Church , but "flunk[ed] the period of inquiry". He later attended a Mennonite church. Wallace attended Amherst College , his father's alma mater, where he majored in English and philosophy and graduated summa cum laude in 1985. Among other extracurricular activities, he participated in glee club ; his sister recalls that he "had a lovely singing voice". In studying philosophy, Wallace pursued modal logic and mathematics, and presented in 1985

2340-573: The Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead . "Partridge", a Season 5 episode of NBC 's Parks and Recreation , repeatedly references Infinite Jest , of which the show's co-creator, Michael Schur , is a noted fan. Schur also directed the music video for The Decemberists ' "Calamity Song", which depicts the Eschaton game from Infinite Jest. Twelve of the interviews from Brief Interviews with Hideous Men were adapted as

2418-624: 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". These and other essays appear in three collections, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again , Consider

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2496-522: The US Open tournament for Tennis magazine; Roger Federer for The New York Times ; the director David Lynch and the pornography industry for Première magazine; the tennis player Michael Joyce for Esquire ; the movie-special-effects industry for Waterstone's magazine; conservative talk radio host John Ziegler for The Atlantic ; and a Maine lobster festival for Gourmet magazine. He also reviewed books in several genres for

2574-482: The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus lies in this city. It is a public land-grant research university and the flagship institution of the University of Illinois system . It is one of the largest public universities by enrollment in the United States with over 50,000 students enrolled annually, giving Urbana a large student population throughout the year. The Urbana Free Library, one of

2652-514: The irony and metafiction associated with postmodernism and explore a post-postmodern or metamodern style. In the essay "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction" (written 1990, published 1993), he proposed that television has an ironic influence on fiction, and urged literary authors to eschew TV's shallow rebelliousness: I want to convince you that irony, poker-faced silence, and fear of ridicule are distinctive of those features of contemporary U.S. culture (of which cutting-edge fiction

2730-475: The 2020 census, Urbana had a population of 38,336. It is a principal city of the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area , which had 236,000 residents in 2020. Urbana is notable for sharing the main campus of the University of Illinois with its twin city of Champaign . The Urbana area was first settled by Europeans in 1822, when it was called "Big Grove". When the county of Champaign was organized in 1833,

2808-584: The Anita Purves Nature Center. It was closed after the summer 2008 season due to deteriorating conditions and concomitant safety issues, it was rebuilt and reopened in 2013. Campus Recreation Center East (CRCE) has an indoor leisure pool with a hot tub. CRCE is owned by the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign . In Urbana, the pools in Freer Hall, formerly a 25-yard and 6-lane lap pool, and Kenney Gym have been closed and filled,

2886-690: The Danville, Urbana, Bloomington and Pekin Railroad. This short-lived entity became part of the Indianapolis, Bloomington and Western Railway before the railroad was completed. A branch line of the Norfolk and Western Railway (formerly the Wabash Railroad) used to connect Urbana with the main line from Danville to Decatur at Sidney, Illinois , but this was first rerouted and later closed in

2964-629: The Hickman Tree Walk. The Lincoln statue was previously sited in front of the Urbana Lincoln Hotel, but was moved after only a few months. Meadowbrook Park is located southeast of the Race Street and Windsor Road intersection. The park covers 130 acres (0.53 km ), including 80 of recreated Illinois tallgrass prairie . Around the prairie restoration center of the park loops three miles of wide concrete path suitable for walking, running, and bicycling. In addition, for an off

3042-981: The Holiday season. The lights are turned on from around 5:00 to 10:00 p.m. from the third Saturday in December through New Years Day. The Market at the Square , also known as the Farmers' Market , has been a community event in Urbana since 1979. Every Saturday morning from some time in May to some time in November, dozens of vendors set up shop in the Lincoln Square parking lot in downtown Urbana. They primarily sell local produce (including corn, tomatoes, lettuce and watermelons), but one can also find local crafts, music, kettle corn and booths for various community and political organizations. The Urbana Sweetcorn Festival

3120-655: 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". Wallace's tennis writing was compiled into a volume titled String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis , published in 2016. 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". Of

3198-731: The Methodist Episcopal Church, and the parsonage, was built in 1840 by the Rev. A. Bradshaw, with the Baptist Church following in 1855. The Presbyterian Church was founded in 1856. The city's first school was built in 1854. Urbana suffered a setback when the Chicago branch of the Illinois Central Railroad , which had been expected to pass through town, was instead laid down two miles west, where

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3276-531: The Norfolk Southern main line at Mansfield, Illinois , west of Champaign. The line now operated by Norfolk Southern is the former Peoria & Eastern Railway , later operated as part of the Big Four ( Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway ), New York Central , Penn Central , and Conrail systems, being sold by Conrail to Norfolk Southern in 1996. Construction of the line was begun by

3354-496: The System (1987) garnered national attention and critical praise. In The New York Times , Caryn James called it a "manic, human, flawed extravaganza ... emerging straight from the excessive tradition of Stanley Elkin 's The Franchiser , Thomas Pynchon 's V. , [and] John Irving 's World According to Garp ". In 1991, Wallace began teaching literature as an adjunct professor at Emerson College in Boston. The next year, at

3432-472: The Urbana City Hall (400 S. Vine St.) dedicated October 2012, took 22 years of struggle and efforts of three mayors. The environmental and sculptural artists/curator of the park, John David Mooney designed the plantings, walkways, a 12-foot high fountain sculpture (Falling Leaf), and a 33-foot high light sculpture (Spirit Tree). The Spirit Tree specifically gives new meaning to Urbana's designation as

3510-467: The album A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships by The 1975 , borrows its title from the opening line of Infinite Jest . Matty Healy , The 1975's lead singer, said in an interview with Pitchfork that he was inspired by the novel after reading it during a stint in rehabilitation: I was reading [ Infinite Jest ] when I was in rehab. There was no one there. It was me and my nurses, who'd come in and check on me, and then Angela [the protagonist of

3588-415: The average family size was 2.06. The city's age distribution consisted of 11.7% under the age of 18, 38.2% from 18 to 24, 26.1% from 25 to 44, 13.4% from 45 to 64, and 10.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 25.0 years. For every 100 females, there were 97.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 97.2 males. The median income for a household in the city was $ 35,984, and

3666-567: The beaten path experience, the park offers two miles of unpaved trails which wind through the prairie grass. Several small hills make the path unsuitable for inexperienced inline skaters. The path is adorned by about twenty large sculptures from local artists. A playground, shelter, and parking lot are located near the Windsor Road entrance. A community garden , an herbal garden, the Timpone Ornamental Tree Grove and

3744-408: The city of Champaign . The main campus of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is situated on this border. Together, these two cities are often referred to as Urbana-Champaign (the designation used by the university) or Champaign-Urbana (the more common usage, due to the larger size of Champaign). With the nearby village of Savoy they form the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area . As of

3822-462: The commencement address to the 2005 graduating class at Kenyon College . The speech was published as a book, This Is Water , in 2009. In May 2013, parts of the speech were used in a popular online video, also titled "This Is Water". Bonnie Nadell was Wallace's literary agent during his entire career. Michael Pietsch was his editor on Infinite Jest . Wallace died in 2008. In March 2009, Little, Brown and Company announced that it would publish

3900-572: The county seat was located on 40 acres of land, 20 acres donated by William T. Webber and 20 acres by M. W. Busey, considered to be the city's founder, and the name "Urbana" was adopted after Urbana, Ohio , the hometown of State Senator John W. Vance, who authored the Enabling Act creating Champaign County. The creation of the new town was celebrated for the first time on July 4, 1833. Stores began opening in 1834. The first mills were founded in c.  1838 -50. The town's first church,

3978-483: The doors. Not part of the Urbana School District, University Laboratory High School , locally known as Uni High, is a publicly funded laboratory school located on the campus of the University of Illinois in Urbana. It was founded in 1921. It is a research project of the University of Illinois College of Education. Urbana Middle School was first known as Urbana Junior High School in 1953. In 2003

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4056-676: The essays "Shipping Out" and "Ticket to the Fair", John Cook has remarked that in Wallace's nonfiction: 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. Wallace's father said that David had suffered from major depressive disorder for more than 20 years and that antidepressant medication had allowed him to be productive. Wallace suffered what

4134-488: The first public libraries in Illinois, was founded in 1874 and is located in the downtown area. The historic building which houses the library was built in 1918. A major new addition was opened in 2005. The library houses historical archives of Champaign County, which can be used for genealogical research. Established in 1956, the Champaign County Historical Archives is a department of the Urbana Free Library that maintains

4212-481: The former redeveloped as research and teaching spaces. The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign fields ten men and eleven women varsity sports. Urbana has been home to several separate minor league baseball clubs in conjunction with Champagin. The Champaign-Urbana Velvets played in the Illinois–Missouri League from 1911 until the league disbanded after 1914. The city's most recent minor league team

4290-425: The heart of downtown Urbana. In addition to corn and beverages, the festival has offered a range of activities and events, including a display of antique and other collectors' cars and volksmarches , arts events, a dog show, and a book sale organized by the Friends of the Urbana Free Library. The Urbana Lincoln Hotel is connected to Lincoln Square Mall, an indoor walking mall, in the center of Urbana. The hotel

4368-458: The human condition as daily crises and chronic disillusionment and warned against succumbing to solipsism , invoking the existential values of compassion and mindfulness: The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day. ... The only thing that's capital-T True

4446-410: The land was flatter. The town of West Urbana grew up around the train depot built there in 1854, and in 1861 its name was changed to Champaign . The competition between the two cities provoked Urbana to tear down the ten-year-old County Courthouse and replace it with a much larger and fancier structure, to ensure that the county seat would remain in Urbana. Champaign-Urbana was selected as the site for

4524-559: The manuscript of an unfinished novel, The Pale King , that Wallace had been working on before his death. Pietsch pieced the novel together from pages and notes Wallace left behind. Several excerpts were published in The New Yorker and other magazines. The Pale King was published on April 15, 2011, and received generally positive reviews. Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times wrote that The Pale King "showcases [Wallace's] embrace of discontinuity; his fascination with both

4602-484: The median income for a family was $ 66,955. Males had a median income of $ 27,150 versus $ 25,511 for females. The per capita income for the city was $ 25,365. About 11.4% of families and 29.1% of the population were below the poverty line , including 19.1% of those under age 18 and 5.6% of those age 65 or over. Candlestick Lane is the name of a neighborhood in eastern Urbana. This neighborhood consists of Grant Place and adjacent properties on Fairlawn and Eastern Drives. It

4680-639: The meta and the microscopic, postmodern pyrotechnics and old-fashioned storytelling; and his ongoing interest in contemporary America's obsession with self-gratification and entertainment." The book was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Throughout his career, Wallace published short fiction in periodicals such as The New Yorker , GQ , Harper's Magazine , Playboy , The Paris Review , Mid-American Review , Conjunctions , Esquire , Open City , Puerto del Sol , and Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern . Wallace wanted to progress beyond

4758-411: The population. There were 17,295 households, out of which 17.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 25.57% were married couples living together, 8.99% had a female householder with no husband present, and 61.38% were non-families. 44.42% of all households were made up of individuals, and 8.10% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.70 and

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4836-528: The school was renovated for space. The school currently serves 954 students from grades 6 to 8. The Elementary schools in Urbana are Leal, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Dr. Preston L. Williams Jr., Thomas Paine, and Yankee Ridge. Urbana Early Childhood School is the former Washington Early Childhood Center and is located on the Prairie Campus next to Dr. Preston L. Williams Elementary. Most of

4914-526: The side of her house at night, and followed her five-year-old son home from school. Wallace also attempted to buy a gun to kill Karr's ex-husband. In a 2015 NPR interview, Karr stated that, "I'm not the only woman [Wallace] was violent with. It was, it's common knowledge among women who dated him, you know, that he was violent." Since publicizing Wallace's abuse, Karr says women have contacted her to share stories of Wallace hiting, lying, and preying on them, including former students of Wallace. The Broom of

4992-439: The song], miles away. I was surrounded by no one, and the book was just open on the front page, as most copies of Infinite Jest are ... nobody reads [ Infinite Jest ] all the way! Everyone our age has got a battered, quarter-read copy of Infinite Jest . Urbana, Illinois Urbana ( / ɜːr ˈ b æ n ə / ur- BAN -ə ) is a city in and the county seat of Champaign County, Illinois , United States. As of

5070-474: The suggestion of colleague and supporter Steven Moore , Wallace obtained a position in the English department at Illinois State University . He had begun work on his second novel, Infinite Jest , in 1991, and submitted a draft to his editor in December 1993. After the publication of excerpts throughout 1995, the book was published in 1996. In 1997, Wallace received a MacArthur Fellowship . He also received

5148-633: The writers Don DeLillo , Zadie Smith , George Saunders , Mark Costello, Donald Antrim , and Jonathan Franzen . In March 2010, it was announced that Wallace's personal papers and archives—drafts of books, stories, essays, poems, letters, and research, including the handwritten notes for Infinite Jest —had been purchased by the University of Texas at Austin . They are held at that university's Harry Ransom Center . Since 2011, Loyola University New Orleans has offered English seminar courses on Wallace. Similar courses have also been taught at Harvard University . The first David Foster Wallace Conference

5226-524: Was adapted as a play by artist Andy Holden for a two-night run at the ICA in London. The short story "Tri-Stan: I Sold Sissee Nar to Ecko", from Brief Interviews with Hideous Men , was adapted by composer Eric Moe into a 50-minute operatic piece, to be performed with accompanying video projections. The piece was described as having "subversively inscribed classical music into pop culture". Infinite Jest

5304-478: Was believed to be a severe interaction of the medication with the food he had eaten one day at a restaurant, and in June 2007, on his doctor's advice, he stopped taking phenelzine , his primary antidepressant drug. His depression recurred, and he tried other treatments, including electroconvulsive therapy . Eventually he went back on phenelzine but found it ineffective. On September 12, 2008, at age 46, Wallace wrote

5382-545: Was born in Ithaca, New York , to Sally Jean Wallace ( née Foster) and James Donald Wallace . The family moved to Champaign-Urbana, Illinois , where he was raised along with his younger sister, Amy Wallace-Havens. His father was a philosophy professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign . His mother was an English professor at Parkland College , a community college in Champaign, which recognized her work with

5460-679: Was cited by Time magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. His posthumous novel, The Pale King (2011), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2012. The Los Angeles Times ' s David Ulin called Wallace "one of the most influential and innovative writers of the last twenty years". Wallace grew up in Illinois and attended Amherst College . He taught English at Emerson College , Illinois State University , and Pomona College . After struggling with depression for many years, he died by suicide in 2008, at age 46. David Foster Wallace

5538-476: Was created by Elouise P. Cobell and her legal team to bring claims against the United States for mismanaging lands held in trust for Native Americans. The Cobell v. Salazar case was filed in 1996 and settled in 2009. David Foster Wallace David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and university professor of English and creative writing . Wallace's 1996 novel Infinite Jest

5616-607: Was designed by famed Urbana architect Joseph Royer in 1923 and opened several rooms on November 1, 1923, to accommodate guests for the university's Homecoming game. The original building was built in the Tudor Revival style. A convention center was added in the 1970s in the Bavarian style. While being forced to close twice between 1990 and 2009, the hotel was purchased by a private developer in 2010 and underwent major rehabilitation. The hotel opened under new management and with

5694-1058: Was hosted by the Illinois State University Department of English in May 2014; the second was held in May 2015. In January 2017, the International David Foster Wallace Society and the Journal of David Foster Wallace Studies were launched. Among the writers who have cited Wallace as an influence are Dave Eggers , Jonathan Franzen , Rivka Galchen , Matthew Gallaway , David Gordon , John Green , Porochista Khakpour , George Saunders , Michael Schur , Zadie Smith , Darin Strauss , Deb Olin Unferth , Elizabeth Wurtzel , and Charles Yu . A feature-length film adaptation of Brief Interviews with Hideous Men , directed by John Krasinski with an ensemble cast,

5772-508: Was performed once as a stage play by Germany's experimental theater Hebbel am Ufer . The play was staged in various locations throughout Berlin , and the action took place over a 24-hour period. "Good Old Neon", from Oblivion: Stories , was adapted and performed by Ian Forester at the 2011 Hollywood Fringe Festival , produced by the Los Angeles independent theater company Needtheater. The song "Surrounded by Heads and Bodies", from

5850-481: Was released in 2009 and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival . The 19th episode of the 23rd season of The Simpsons , " A Totally Fun Thing That Bart Will Never Do Again " (2012), is loosely based on Wallace's essay "Shipping Out" from his 1997 collection, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again . The Simpson family takes a cruise, and Wallace appears in the background of a scene, wearing

5928-497: Was repeatedly hospitalized for psychiatric care. In 1989, he spent four weeks at McLean Hospital —a psychiatric institute in Belmont, Massachusetts , affiliated with Harvard Medical School—where he completed a drug and alcohol detoxification program. He later said his time there changed his life. Dogs were important to Wallace, and he spoke of opening a shelter for stray canines. According to his friend Jonathan Franzen , he "had

6006-678: Was the Champaign-Urbana Bandits who played during the single 1994 season of the Great Central League . The Bandits played at Illinois Field . Prior to holding postseason play, the league folded. The Champaign-Urbana Colts played in the Central Illinois Collegiate League from 1990 until the team folded in 1996. Urbana has Mayor–council government , of the strong-mayor form. The city council has seven members, each elected from

6084-485: Was using 97 percent of me, whereas philosophy was using 50 percent." Wallace completed a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing at the University of Arizona in 1987. He moved to Massachusetts to attend graduate school in philosophy at Harvard University , but soon left the program. In 2002, Wallace met the painter Karen L. Green , whom he married on December 27, 2004. Wallace struggled with depression, alcoholism, drug addiction, and suicidal tendencies, and

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