Morning Bites: David Foster Wallace At 50, Pen/Faulker Finalists, Bushwick Writers, Maya Rudolph As Her Mom, And More

Today would have been David Foster Wallace’s 50th birthday.  Daniel B. Roberts at Salon makes the case for giving more credit to Wallace’s work as a journalist.  If you want more Wallace, join in on the #dfw50 conversation on Twitter. Russell Banks, Don DeLillo, Anita Desai, Steven Millhauser, and Julie Otsuka are the finalists for the 2012 Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Today also marks the anniversary of the 1925 debut of The New Yorker. Five Bushwick writers talk about how to get […]

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