Giving Up the Ghost: A New Biography Gives a Sobering View of David Foster Wallace
After David Foster Wallace’s death, once the dust settled on the extraordinary eulogies by Zadie Smith, John Jeremiah Sullivan, David Lipsky and many others who stood in awe before their titanic subject, another school of writing about Wallace emerged. His suicide in 2008 provoked the minute dissection of parts of Wallace’s life that the author Read More
