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David Foster Wallace was like, Art must be sincere! We must use every tool in the linguistic toolbox to cut through sentiment and dishonest cliche and build fresh ways to reveal the power and reality of unironized emotion.

And Mister Rogers was like, Basically the same thing, but without any shame or pretense or fear of sincerity.

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David Foster Wallace’s: “Drugs, Sports & Death: America in Footnotes”

"Two women, one biography."

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from D.T. Max’s Every Love Story is a Ghost Story A Life of David Foster Wallace

The only Becket [sic] I've read is Molloy, and that was under academic duress. And my mom made me read both Ulysses and Stuart Gilbert. Yet I've read and reread every word of Pynchon, Barth, Delllo, Puig, Cortazar, and Jean Rhys -- my own little Olympus.

- From a 1990 letter to David Markson.

#dfw #david markson #david foster wallace #lit

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There is no such thing as not voting; you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard’s vote.

David Foster Wallace

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Part of the time sobriety left him so confused that he just lay on the couch and watched TV, but slowly he regained his footing and began to participate in the recovery group. … For the first time in his life, Wallace found his outsized intelligence a liability. To do well in recovery required modesty rather than brilliance. It was not easy for him to accept humbling adages like ‘your best thinking got you here.’ But then how smart could he be, the other program members would remind him at their meetings, if here he was in a room in the basement of a church with a dozen other people talking about how he couldn’t stop drinking?

DT Max, Every Love Story is a Ghost Story (via thedependentclause)

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Here's my interview on Studio 360!

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I think that David was uncomfortable with happiness. He never entirely felt he deserved happiness.

Biographer D.T. Max, on David Foster Wallace. (via theatlantic)

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"The debt to Ellis was one DFW would never acknowledge. When Howard asked... whether DFW had read Less Than Zero, Wallace told him no." pg73

— D.T. Max (@D_T_Max) September 6, 2012

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“…now, with the fullness of these letters and the interviews and the long, careful view of his life, can I imagine him growing old and still suffering with Pale King but happy in the rest of his life? Going to that garage every day to work, put in eight hours to try and push this dog...

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adventures in “how much can i scribble everywhere and draw nothing the way it looks in real life and still have it look alright through use of super-restricted colour pallettes”

infinite jest is a good book but it is honestly too unwieldy to read anywhere other than in bed.