This was a good interview. I finished it right after the D.T. Max biography of Wallace so a lot of the biographical information was repeated. Also the interview was so long that some of the points and stories are covered twice at least. I am very glad I read it. Wallace comes across as more of a ...
David Foster Wallace's quotes and insights are very moving and important. His discusses the disillusionment of popularity and the dangers of attention; about the arrogance of being in your mid-twenties and being successful; about how writing for the right reasons vs. the wrong ones. He even gets ...
It’s like speed-dating, getting to see what’s available, if he were only unattached. So he keeps hearing one message in his head—a consumerist one, which surprises him.] “Get a new car, get a new car”—but I would never get a new car until I figured out what to do with this one. It’s like a marria...