Oblivion

Critical Praise

"It would be best to state right and first off that David Foster Wallace's new collection of stories is very, very good.... 'Oblivion' contains stories that are utterly unprecedented."
-Newsday

"....Oblivion navigates maze-like psychology with verbal mastery and surrealistic glee."
-Village Voice

"No other writer now working communicates so dazzlingly what life will feel like the day after tomorrow."
-Elle

"Wallace is the best kind of show-off, a writer who is not complacent with his writerly gifts. . . . He can risk magnificently, and when he succeeds, the result is startling, visionary fiction."
-San Francisco Chronicle

"One of the big talents of his generation, a writer of virtuosic talents who can seemingly do anything."
-New York Times

"Wallace is the dark prince of contemporary American fiction."
-Details

"The most exciting fiction writer out there."
-OC Weekly

"Wallace has planted himself firmly as the American writer of his generation to watch, to match, and, most urgently, to read."
-Salon

ELLE proclaims, "[Wallace] offers more stories in OBLIVION. His best stuff is a peerless combination of intelligence, compassion, and lyricism that needs no apology or qualification"

Time Out New York's "Summer Books" issue feature OBLIVION, "The prodigiously talented Wallace riffs his way through parts of the brain most of us have never visited."