When David Foster Wallace committed suicide on September 12, 2008, at the age of 46, it was inevitable that we’d eventually read a biography of his life….What wasn’t inevitable is that we’d have a biographer as sensitive and careful as D.T. Max to give us such a strong account so soon after the author’s death. The resulting book, released a little less than four years after Wallace’s suicide, is Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace, which grew out of Max’s widely read 10,000-word New Yorker article, “The Unfinished.” After reading Max’s moving book, I have been haunted by a question that I’m finding incredibly hard to answer.
What would David Foster Wallace have made of his own biography?
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I cannot wait to buy and read my copy. How haunting is that line though - “Every love story is a ghost story.” The line...
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Sigo teniendo pendiente terminar ‘La broma infinita’, pero algún día lo haré, seguro.
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