Bryan Goebel

David Foster WallaceI first discovered David Foster Wallace in the pages of the Atlantic and the New Yorker. His essay on KFI's John Ziegler is, for me, the best piece ever written on talk radio.

But the work that established Wallace as a major American literary figure was his giant novel, "Infinite Jest".

Wallace died Friday at the age of 46.

In this interview, Marshall Boswell, a novelist and associate professor of English at Rhodes College in Memphis, talks about Wallace's literary legacy.