D.T. Max is a New Yorker staff writer who wrote the first biography of Wallace and has become a great, low-key advocate for DFW’s work. D.T. developed a picture of a writer who tried really hard, who had his genius and his flaws, and whose fiction performed the rare feat of offering solutions as well as identifying problems. This conversation will hopefully encourage listeners to cut through the cultural baggage reading Wallace’s work has accrued, and experience the pleasure and relief of having DFW’s voice come alive anew.
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“Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story” is D.T. Max’s biography of David Foster Wallace
Wallace’s book-length work discussed:
Novels:
The Broom Of The System, 1987
Infinite Jest, 1996
The Pale King, 2011 (published posthumously)
Short Stories:
Girl With Curious Hair, 1989
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, 1999
Oblivion, 2004
Nonfiction:
A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, 1997
Everything And More, 2003
Consider The Lobster, 2005
