Our art director, Margarita Korol, dedicated the first in our weekly series of literary trading cards would be to celebrate what would have been the 49th birthday of the great David Foster Wallace.
You can purchase a limited edition copy of this literary trading card at Cafe Press.


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[...] We are knee-deep in Wallace’s external monologue at arguably the crucial moment in his professional life: the book tour immediately following the release of Jest in 1996. The ink on its major reviews (tepid reaction from Michiko Kakutani and Will Blythe, and reverential jubilee from nearly everyone else) had not yet dried. Wallace’s students at Illinois State University had only begun to recognize his celebrity. It’s March in the midst of a harsh midwest winter: Wallace has just turned thirty-four (last month, Vol. 1 celebrated in style what would have been his forty-ninth birthday). [...]
[...] And there’s also our DFW Literary Trading Card from last year’s birthday. [...]