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D.T. Max on David Foster Wallace, Different Kinds of Intelligence, Bret Easton Ellis, Irony vs. Sincerity, and 12-Step Philosophy

Otherppl with Brad Listi

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David Foster Wallace's Last Months

David Remnick the editor of The New Yorker emailed me which I had been living in Alexandria, Virginia. David Foster Wallace never won a major or even a minor book award. He still wanted to hide a little bit better than to lay out the road map to who he was. And that was the Larry McCaffrey interview which is great. It's the Rosetta Stone for David you know it's where things start.

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