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But amid the process of tracing the impact of depression on his life and work, Max takes the time to let Wallace’s friends and family remember what kind of person he was: I’ve now read all of his interviews and essays and one of his novels, and I cannot conceive of how the public could have missed this. He’d hid it from the public for years, never mentioning his heavy medication, his past substance addictions, or his trips to mental health facilities, including more than one round of electric shock therapy. The article covers his life and literary career, but was the first outlet after his death which reported on his long struggle with depression, so the theme of his struggles against his own mind ran through the piece. It is a deeply emotional piece of reporting, and produced a few images of Wallace which I am still unable to shake off. Max's long, painful article in The New Yorker.
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A giant had fallen and I had only just discovered him. Now that I've read his fiction, I notice that virtually every word on that blog is written in a voice desperately trying to sound like his. "Time to rerereread Infinite Jest," the blog said. I am a regular reader of the infrequently updated blog of the web developer for the Penny Arcade webcomic (it's a long story) and it was there that I saw he'd killed himself. I decided not to read it on the grounds that it did not appear to have much sex or violence in it. I remember reading Amazon reviews of Infinite Jest at work in 2005, when browsing through the longest books in the English language.
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If you go to the search page on the London Review of Books website, the example illustrating how to search for terms in quotes is "david foster wallace." I remember seeing his short story collection Brief Interviews With Hideous Men at a used bookstore, sandwiched peculiarly in the Marxism section, on the very bottom shelf, towards the left.
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I came very accidentally to David Foster Wallace. And her cockatiel, Vlad the Impaler, has suddenly started spouting a mixture of psychobabble, Auden, and the King James Bible, which may propel him to stardom on a Christian fundamentalist television program.įiercely intelligent and entertaining, this debut novel from one of the most innovative writers of our generation explores the paradoxes of language, storytelling, and reality.The Broom of the System, by David Foster Wallace Her beau (and boss), editor-in-chief Rick Vigorous, is insanely jealous. Her great-grandmother, a one-time student of Wittgenstein, has disappeared with twenty-five other inmates of the Shaker Heights Nursing Home. Lenore works as a switchboard attendant at a publishing firm, and in addition to her mind-numbing job, she has a few other problems. The year is 1990 and the place is a slightly altered Cleveland, Ohio, which sits on the edge of a suburban wasteland-the Great Ohio Desert. The “dazzling, exhilarating” ( San Francisco Chronicle) debut novel from the bestselling author of Infinite Jest, available for the first time as an audiobook.Īt the center of The Broom of the System is the betwitching (and also bewildered) heroine, Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman.