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by Philip Roth

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“What always amazed Wallace about real life was the overload of information. He did not see how anyone could really capture what went on in a single moment”
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“Grammar, he saw, was agreement, community, consensus.”
― D.T. Max, Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace

tags: community, consensus, grammar

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“A publisher sent him a galley of a novel by a writer he had barely heard of, one that impressed him deeply and seemed to embody all the literary qualities he had called for in his "fictional Futures" essay. The book was Franzen's The Twenty-Seventh City. Set in St. Louis, it mixed postmodernism and traditional storytelling and showed a familiarity its chosen city that Wallace could only marvel it. it decanted a Pynchonesque conspiracy in media-mediated language; it was about word AND the world, realism for an era when there was no real.”
― D.T. Max, Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace

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“When David Markson wrote in June to complain about an author's getting an award he though should have been his, Wallace gently warned him away from the pitfall of envy: "Mostly I try to remember how lucky I am to be able to write, and doubly, triply lucky I am that anyone else is willing to read it, to say nothing of publishing it. I'm no pollyanna - this keeping-the-spirits-up shit is hard work, and I don't often do it well. But I try... Life is good”
― D.T. Max, Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace

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“He [Wallace] sent a quick note to his friend [Franzen] explaining his behavior. "the bold fact is that I'm a little afraid of you right now,"[...] "all I can tell you is that I may have been that [a worthy opponent] for you a couple/ three years ago, and maybe 16 months or tow or 5 or 10 years hence, but right now I am a pathetic and very confused man, a failed writer at 28, who is so jealous, so sickly searing envious of you and Vollmann and Mark Leyner and even David Fuckward Leavitt and any young man who is right now producing pages with which he can live and even approving them off some base-clause of conviction about the entrprise's meaning and end that I consider suicide a reasonable- if not at this point a desirable- option with respect to the whole wretched problem.”
― D.T. Max, Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace

tags: david-foster-wallace, david-leavitt, jonathan-franzen, literary-genius, mark-leyner, suicide, william-t-vollmann

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