D. Max - Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story - A Life of David Foster Wallace

248 “not about the thing,” from a letter to a friend, February 22, 1998.

249 “post-partum funk,” from a letter to a friend, October 25, 1998.

249 “I’ve been going,” from a letter to Brad Morrow, April 4, 1998.

249 “We snorkeled,” from a postcard to Jonathan Franzen, November 4, 1998.

250 “Issues of usage,” from a letter to Don DeLillo, November 25, 1998.

250 “It is a sad Christmas,” from a card to Don DeLillo, December 1998.

251 “I always get the giggles,” from a letter to Rich C., August 24, 2000.

251 “I too have used,” from a note to Lee Freeman, Fall 1998.

252 “She was a girl,” from J. D. Salinger, “A Perfect Day for Bananafish,” in Nine Stories (Little, Brown, 1953) at 3.

253 “a collection of,” from “Overlooked,” Salon , April 12, 1999.

253 “mean to just about,” from an interview with Michael Silverblatt on KCRW, August 12, 1999.

253 “The big Attention eyeball,” from a letter to Brad Morrow, April 4, 1998.

253 “I’m in the midst of,” from a letter to Steven Moore, June 4, 1999.

253 “The Statue Talks!” from a letter to a friend, December 28, 1997.

253 “just want[ed] to,” from the Arden interview.

253 “I wanted to do,” from an interview with Michael Silverblatt on KCRW, August 12, 1999.

254 “full-scale harassment,” from Benjamin Weissman, “A Sleek and Brilliant Monster,” LA Weekly , April 28, 1999.

254 “seemingly inexhaustible bag,” from Andrei Cordescu, “Literary Cure,” Chicago Tribune , May 23, 1999.

254 “another mad scientist,” from Adam Goodheart, “Please Phrase Your Answer in the Form of a Question,” New York Times , June 20, 1999.

254 “No doubt these,” from Michiko Kakutani, “Calling Them Misogynists Would Be Too Kind,” New York Times , June 1, 1999.

254 “The NY Times just,” from a letter to Steven Moore, June 4, 1999.

255 “meta-ironic” and “Does Wallace’s work,” from A. O. Scott, “The Panic of Influence,” New York Review of Books , February 20, 2000.

255 “The difference,” from Seth Stevenson, “David Foster Wallace’s Hideous Men,” Slate , June 3, 1999.

257 “We fill pre-existing forms,” from Frank Bidart, “Borges and I,” in Desire: Poems (FSG, 1999) at 9.

257 “weird cultish Sikh,” from a letter to Rich C., August 24, 2000.

258 “a long march,” from a letter to Don DeLillo, November 3, 1999.

258 “visually raw,” from a letter to Don DeLillo, March 21, 2000.

258–59 “Almost everything I,” from a letter to Jonathan Franzen, circa summer 2000.

259 “I’m scared I can’t,” from a letter to Rich C., September 19, 2000.

260 “the brief weird excitement,” from the optional foreword to “Up Simba,” in Consider the Lobster (Little, Brown: 2005) at 159.

260 “three months that tickled” and “I do not know,” from a letter to Don DeLillo, March 21, 2000.

261 “I know [enough],” from a letter to Jesse Cohen, June 29, 2000.

261 “on the side” and “Did you know,” from a fax to Jesse Cohen, August 4, 2000.

261 “Cantor and the sheer,” from a fax by Jesse Cohen, August 7, 2000.

262 “Most of my own,” from a letter to David Markson, November 3, 2000.

262 “did a pretty good,” from a letter to Don DeLillo, April 26, 2001.

262 “Highlights” and “gearing up for” from a postcard to Don DeLillo, August 20, 2001.

263, 264 “It’s been a couple,” “two periods,” and “I apologize in advance,” from a letter to Michael Pietsch, October 13, 2001.

264 “There’s the whole,” from an interview with Laura Miller, in Salon.com , March 9, 1996.

264, 265 “A genre is hardening” and “vitality at all costs,” from James Wood, “Human, All Too Inhuman,” The New Republic , August 30, 2001.

265 “the traditional galleys-and-proofs,” from a letter to Don DeLillo, April 28, 2000.

265 “I struggle a great deal,” from a letter to Rich C., August 24, 2000.

267 “The students actually,” from a letter to Dale Peterson, March 2, 2001.

267 “home,” from a letter to Brad Morrow, April 31, 2001.

Chapter 8: The Pale King

268 “What kind of zip code,” from a letter to Don DeLillo, July 3, 2002.

268 “yellow snow,” from a letter to Brad Morrow, March 21, 2003.

269 “closest thing to a child,” from a letter to Brad Morrow, December 1, 2002.

270 “much less touristy or vulgar” and “pretty much hopelessly in love,” from a letter to Brad Morrow, January 6, 2003.

270 “land of 1600 SAT scores,” from a letter to Brad Morrow, April 30, 2001.

270 “We’re hiring you,” from Paul Brownfield, Literary Star Out of Limelight, Los Angeles Times, April 27, 2003.

270 “I have a lottery-prize-type gig,” from an interview with Dave Eggers, The Believer , November 2003.

272 “own eccentric researching,” from an email to Bonnie Nadell, April 4, 2003.

272 “enormous, pungent and extremely well-marketed,” from “Consider the Lobster,” Gourmet , August 2004.

273 “My audit group’s,” from The Pale King (New York: Little, Brown, 2011) at 387.

273 “I…did not think,” from a letter to Don DeLillo, circa November 2002.

274 “I’m doing a book about math!” from a postcard to Steven Moore, January 13, 2002.

274 “wretched math book,” from a postcard to Don DeLillo, July 3, 2002.

274 “both the math-editor,” from a postcard to Don DeLillo, September 1, 2002.

274 “The galleys for,” from a postcard to Don DeLillo, June 4, 2003.

276 “refreshingly conversational style,” from John Allen Paulos, “Electrified Paté,” American Scholar , Winter 2004.

276 “One wonders exactly whom,” from David Papineau, “Room for One More,” New York Times , November 16, 2003.

276 “mathematicians will view it,” from Rudy Rucker, “Infinite Confusion,” Science , January 16, 2004.

276 “Dr. Ragde,” from a letter to Jesse Cohen, circa early 2004.

276 “the best of the stuff,” from a letter to Michael Pietsch, October 13, 2001.

277 “unhappy, complicated, intellectualizing men,” from a letter by Michael Pietsch, November 28, 2001.

277 “I don’t feel much like an editor here,” from a letter by Michael Pietsch, October 3, 2003.

279 “only the tiniest tasting,” from Michiko Kakutani, “Life Distilled from Details, Infinite and Infinitesimal,” New York Times , June 1, 2004.

280 “forest-killing manuscript,” from Steve E. Alford, “Wordy Wallace Has New Stories,” Houston Chronicle , June 13, 2004.

280 “Wallace has the right,” Wyatt Mason, “Don’t like it? You don’t have to play,” London Review of Books , November 18, 2004.

281 “Karen is rehabbing,” and “It’s a dark time,” from an email to Jonathan Franzen, July 16, 2005.

282 “No more nymphs,” from a postcard to Steven Moore, February 2, 2002.

282 “I hear Kath[y],” from an email to Jonathan Franzen, February 11, 2004.

282 “I am more and more,” from an email to Jonathan Franzen, February 18, 2004.

283 “shitty motel,” from a letter to Don DeLillo, January 26, 2005.

283-84 “It’s just this” and “Basically — I empathize,” from a letter to Weston Cutter, un dated.

284 “I’m poised, ready,” from Brownfield, “Literary Star, Out of the Limelight.”

285 “You’re special,” from a letter to Evan Wright, October 17, 1999.

286 “I allow myself,” from a letter to Erica Neely, July 3, 2001.