Wallace was an A student through high school, he played football, he played tennis, he wrote a philosophy thesis and a novel before he graduated from Amherst, he went to writing school, published the novel, made a city of squalling, bruising, kneecapping editors and writers fall moony-eyed in love with him. His life was a map that ends at the wrong destination. Instead of being a relief from what it feels like to live.' Readers curled up in the nooks and clearings of his style: his comedy, his brilliance, his humaneness. My job is to make some sense of it.' He wanted to write 'stuff about what it feels like to live. 'I received 500,000 discrete bits of information today,' he once said, 'of which maybe 25 are important. His life was an information hunt, collecting hows and whys.

Wallace was an A student through high school, he played football, he played tennis, he wrote a philosophy thesis and a novel before he graduated from Amherst, he went to writ David Foster Wallace worked surprising turns on nearly everything: novels, journalism, vacation.

David Foster Wallace worked surprising turns on nearly everything: novels, journalism, vacation.

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