DAY: 23/100
David Foster Wallace’s: “Drugs, Sports & Death: America in Footnotes”
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2013-05-17
Source: 100daystyleradamsmith
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2013-03-10
“Two women, one biography.”
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2012-10-08
Taken with Instagram
from D.T. Max’s Every Love Story is a Ghost Story A Life of David Foster Wallace
Source: stephanielacava
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2012-09-24
The only Becket [sic] I’ve read is Molloy, and that was under academic duress. And my mom made me read both Ulysses and Stuart Gilbert. Yet I’ve read and reread every word of Pynchon, Barth, Delllo, Puig, Cortazar, and Jean Rhys — my own little Olympus.
- From a 1990 letter to David Markson.
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2012-09-21
There is no such thing as not voting; you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard’s vote.
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(via barackobama)
(via barackobama)
Source: azspot
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2012-09-12
Part of the time sobriety left him so confused that he just lay on the couch and watched TV, but slowly he regained his footing and began to participate in the recovery group. … For the first time in his life, Wallace found his outsized intelligence a liability. To do well in recovery required modesty rather than brilliance. It was not easy for him to accept humbling adages like ‘your best thinking got you here.’ But then how smart could he be, the other program members would remind him at their meetings, if here he was in a room in the basement of a church with a dozen other people talking about how he couldn’t stop drinking?
— DT Max, Every Love Story is a Ghost Story (via thedependentclause)
Source: thedependentclause
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Source: believermag
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2012-09-07
Here’s my interview on Studio 360!
Source: studio360.org
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2012-09-06
I think that David was uncomfortable with happiness. He never entirely felt he deserved happiness.
— Biographer D.T. Max, on David Foster Wallace. (via theatlantic)
(via theatlantic)
Source: The Atlantic
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