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Event: The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, hosts The David Foster Wallace Symposium.

EVENT: A digital preview of archive materials relating to David Foster Wallace’s posthumous novel "The Pale King" will be shared by the Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, and publisher Little, Brown and Company.

The preview includes a series of drafts of the "Author's Foreword,"…   » Continue Reading

EVENT: The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, celebrates the release of David Foster Wallace's posthumous novel "The Pale King" with readings of selections from the novel.

This event is held in conjunction with the Austin Public Library Friends Foundation's New Fiction Confab and BookPeople.…   » Continue Reading

Saturday, Oct. 16, 3:30 p.m., Paramount Theatre, 713 Congress Ave.. The Ransom Center and the Texas Book Festival present a panel on the life and work of David Foster Wallace (1962-2008).

The panel includes David Lipsky, who spent five days with Wallace in 1996 on assignment from Rolling Stone - an assignment that came to fruition just this year, as Lipsky's highly praised "Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace" was published.

Image of Wallace from More Intelligent Life Consider the Archive: An Evening of David Foster Wallace
Tuesday, September 14

Tuesday, Sept. 14, 7 p.m., Jessen Auditorium, Homer Rainey Hall. The Harry Ransom Center commemorates the opening of the David Foster Wallace archive with readings of Wallace's work by writers and actors.

Readers, including Elizabeth Crane, Doug Dorst, Owen Egerton, Chris Gibson and Jake Silverstein, share selections of Wallace's fiction, essays and correspondence.

Wallace's archive is housed at the Ransom Center. This event will be Webcast live at www.hrc.utexas.edu/webcast.

A reception and small display of materials from the Wallace archive follow at the Ransom Center.

The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has acquired the archive of writer David Foster Wallace (1962-2008), author of "Infinite Jest" (1996), "The Broom of the System" (1987), "Girl with Curious Hair" (1988) and numerous collections of stories and essays.

The archive contains manuscript materials for [...]