A review by lola425
Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace by D.T. Max

3.0

Max was able to write this biography without fawning or making DFW seem like a saint. He shed light on some of DFW's flaws without passing judgment and discussed his accomplishments with gushing over his brilliance. I read that Bret Easton Ellis had been tweeting that this bio revealed that DFW was an insecure fame seeking phony (how hilarious is that? If you put all those words together my first guess would have been Ellis himself). That is not the reading I'd give it: it just proves that DFW was a flawed human being, as all of us are. To try and denigrate his gifts because he struggled with his won ego is unfair.