Stephen Mitchelmore

“These themes arise again in Steve’s provocative account of David Foster Wallace’s suicide. Foster Wallace’s human tragedy, Steve suggests, is the result of a failed literary ambition – a thwarted hope “that everything could be contained in a book, unified by narrative”, that “a novel might become the world, exceeding the limits of the self”. For Steve, Foster Wallace’s 1088-page Infinite Jest was an attempt at just such a novel, a novel to make sense of the flux of the world. And his next attempt, The Pale King, destroyed its author, who died of his failure to write a book that could be the world.”
― Stephen Mitchelmore, This Space of Writing