DFP /DFP Google Tag Manager (noscript) End Google Tag Manager (noscript) Close Latest Minutes Politics Culture Magazine Climate Books Photography Newsletter Subscribe About Advertise Contact FAQ Press Jobs RSS Masthead Privacy Subscriber Services Menu Magazine Subscribe The Importance of Being Earnest By Adam Kirsch July 28, 2011 David Foster Wallace was the voice of his generation, for better and for worse. The Pale King By David Foster Wallace (Little, Brown, 548 pp., $27.99) Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free Will By David Foster Wallace (Columbia University Press, 252 pp., $19.95) Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace By David Lipsky (Broadway Books, 320 pp., $16.99) I. Today we think of the 1920s as a golden age of American fiction. But to Edmund Wilson, looking back in 1944, the most striking thing about this mo...