Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story : A Life of David Foster Wallace

from MSarki

Nothing great here, but it was interesting to learn things I did not know. Three stars here means I liked it, which I gratefully did. However, I am not the biggest fan of DT Max, but then again it is I who stands firmly in the camp of the reliably loyal Gordon Lish fans and his athletic supporter...

from _________jt_________

Sort of disturbingly utilitarian, Every Love Story is the tale of how David Foster Wallace wrote Infinite Jest, how he felt about Infinite Jest, how he dealt with the fame created by Infinite Jest, with a little bit about how he killed himself afterward but at least he finished Infinite Jest. Max...

from DRFP

Not having read many biographies I can't say whether this is a particularly good one. Sure, there were parts of Wallace's life that seemed to receive only brief attention (most notably for me the two periods that bookmark his sadly short life) and other elements that were missing (significant com...

from nostalgebraist

This is a good source of info about David Foster Wallace, if you're into that sort of thing (and I am). But it's not a very good book. Wallace was a confusing figure, full of apparent contradictions. You might expect a Wallace biography to open with a set of questions, with some description of h...

from reluctantm

I have a weakness for Infinite Jest, which became a large rock for me during a very unhappy point in my life, like I could wake up each day and know that at least by the end of the day I would have read a few more pages of Infinite Jest and I had to keep going because I couldn't give that up. Bec...