David Foster Wallace | Oblivion

The urge to properly classify David Foster Wallace within an artistic continuum has prompted comparisons with everyone from Thomas Pynchon, to filmmaker David Lynch, even comic David Letterman. Best known for his 1996 tome, Infinite Jest, Wallace's sardonic humor and experimental style are trademarks of his remarkable, award-winning writing, both fiction and non. Oblivion, a collection of "startling" short stories, is the first new fiction from Wallace in five years.