By continuing to browse this repository, you give consent for essential cookies to be used. Although his parents were atheists, Wallace twice attempted to join the Roman Catholic Church, but "flunk[ed] the period of inquiry"; he later attended a Mennonite church. In 1997, Wallace received a MacArthur Fellowship, as well as the Aga Khan Prize for Fiction, awarded by editors of The Paris Review for one of the stories in Brief Interviews which had appeared in the magazine.[32]. [69] The piece was described as having "subversively inscribed classical music into pop culture". [citation needed] His father was a philosophy professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. [50], Wallace covered Senator John McCain's 2000 presidential campaign[51] and the September 11 attacks for Rolling Stone;[52] cruise ships[53] (in what became the title essay of his first nonfiction book), state fairs, and tornadoes for Harper's Magazine; the US Open tournament for Tennis magazine; the director David Lynch and the pornography industry for Premiere 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;[54] and a Maine lobster festival for Gourmet magazine. In the early 1990s, Wallace was in a relationship with writer Mary Karr.
Schur also directed the music video for The Decemberists' "Calamity Song", which depicts the Eschaton game from Infinite Jest.[65]. She said that he kicked her, climbed up the side of her house at night and followed her 5-year-old son home from school.
Tue 8 Jun 2010 13.27 BST She later described Wallace as obsessive about her and said the relationship was volatile, with Wallace once throwing a coffee table at her and once forcing her out of a car, leaving her to walk home. [58] John Cook has remarked that "Wallace encounters pitch-perfect characters who speak comedically crystalline lines and place him in hilariously absurd situations...I used both stories [in teaching journalism] as examples of the inescapable temptation to shave, embellish, and invent narratives". [25][26], In 2002, Wallace met the painter Karen L. Green, whom he married on December 27, 2004. 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.
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[55] He also reviewed books in several genres for the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Philadelphia Inquirer.