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

Gus Van Sant wanted to option Infinite Jest.

Donald Antrim,

“Wallace does not, in fact, tell the story. Instead he inhabits for extended moments the airspace around his characters.”

“Basically—I empathize.

single-entendre

Grammar, he saw, was agreement, community, consensus.

John Barth’s long story “Lost in the Funhouse,”

Costello remembers getting a letter from Wallace announcing that he wanted to write fiction that would still be read “100 years from now.”

See this thing. See inside what spins without purchase. Close your eye. Absolutely no salesmen will call. Relax. Lie back. I want nothing from you. Lie back. Relax. Quality soil washes right out. Lie back. Open. Face directions. Look. Listen. Use ears I’d be proud to call our own. Listen to the silence behind the engines’ noise. Jesus,