Saturday, November 23, 2013

D. T. Max, Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace, Penguin.




The bio of possibly the greatest American author of his generation (unless you are editorial assistant, reading his "Infinite Jest" requires a grant, which I did not receive) is more an D. T. Max' advertisement (For his parents? For Penguin editors?) that he graduated from Harvard.

An example: "But Kari encouraged him in his investigations [voluminous footnote], and by the time that he left for Syracuse he had blossomed into a committed therapand, as eager to ferret out the roots of his personal malaise as he'd once been to crack logical paradoxes."

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