A review by colepsmith42
Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace by D.T. Max

4.0

I read my first DFW--Brief Interviews with Hideous Men--right after college and kind of hated it, thought it was experimental in a way that didn't benefit the story in any way, but one of the stories still sticks with me to this day, so obviously more effective than I gave it credit for. I came around after reading Infinite Jest and think The Pale King is maybe one of the biggest unfinished literary losses of this generation, though still fantastic in the form it came out in. Anyway, a great bio, a fascinating figure, really gives insight into how he thought about literature, his writing process and its wild fluctuations, and how the preoccupations of his books weave their way thorughout his life.