The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas recently acquired the David Foster Wallace archive:

The archive contains manuscript materials for Wallace’s books, stories and essays; research materials; Wallace’s college and graduate school writings; juvenilia, including poems, stories and letters; teaching materials and books.

Lots of scanned images.

It’s never easy reading posthumous writing from writers who killed themselves. Your worst tendencies come out to play. Your brain works overtime looking for clues.

Here’s All That, a piece by David Foster Wallace that will be published in next week’s New Yorker.

At this rate, I may as well just make a post category for David Foster Wallace.

A personal essay published in the December 1991 issue of Harper’s Magazine, for your reading enjoyment.

David Foster Wallace in 2006 on Roger Federer’s impossibly good game.

Because I’d like to extend the streak even further, here’s a link to an (extremely entertaining) article that DFW wrote for Esquire in 1996 describing the state-of-the-art of professional tennis in uncomfortable detail.

Read David Foster Wallace‘s dictionary-like tome this summer. Get going now – there’s still time!

Adapted from a commencement speech the author delivered at Kenyon College in 2005.