Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story

I’ve had to educate myself about people like Stephen Crane and Edith Wharton,” he wrote Franzen in October, 1991. “Actually that’s been a blast. I had no idea they were so good. I remember reading them a little in high school and mostly wondering when they would get done so I could go eat something sugary and then masturbate.

David Foster Wallace, quoted in D.T. Max’s sad and beautiful 2009 New Yorker profile. Max’s biography of Foster Wallace will be published on August 30th.