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

70 “You cheat yourself,” from a letter by Gerry Howard, January 10, 1986.

70 “made an enormous, haunting impression,” from a letter to Gerry Howard, January 19–20, 1986.

70 “I admit to a potentially irritating,” from a letter to Gerry Howard, January 16, 1986.

70 “geriatrics emerge,” from a letter to Gerry Howard, January 16, 1986.

70 “I am young and confused,” from a letter to Gerry Howard, January 19–20, 1986.

71 “It is a great joy,” from a letter by Gerry Howard, to Bonnie Nadell, January 13, 1986.

71 “Rick, Lenore, and the G.O.D.,” from a letter to Gerry Howard, January 16, 1986.

74 “two broken cars limping across the desert,” from Gale Walden, “Road Trip,” published in Wisconsin Review, 2010.

74 “the next three years at least,” from a letter to Corey Washington, September 14, 1985.

76 “Wallace does not,” from an essay in Wigwag, republished in Sven Birkerts, American Energies (New York: Random House, 1994).

77 “It’s hot, here,” from a letter to Corey Washington, July 13, 1986.

77 “copy-edit the copy-editor,” from a letter to Bonnie Nadell, April 29, 1986.

77 “Hoping Very Much I’ll Never,” from a letter to Gerry Howard, July 2, 1986.

77 “No autobiography, no cocaine,” from a letter by Gerry Howard to Don DeLillo, July 16, 1986.

77 “As wild elk produce many elkins” and “You must not,” from a letter by Richard Elman, February 20, 1986.

77 “I would be hard put,” from a letter by Richard Elman to Gerry Howard, December 19, 1986.

79 “going through both a lawsuit,” from a letter to Bonnie Nadell, March 28, 1987.

79, 80 “I got darned little work done” and “I leave at dawn,” from a letter to Corey Washington, September 6, 1986.

81 “a puerile Pynchon,” from Kirkus Reviews , January 1, 1986.

81 “The guy seemed downright angry,” from a letter to Gerry Howard, January 2, 1987.

81 “Maybe they never found out,” from a letter to Gerry Howard, January 30, 1987.

81 “a hot book…a terrific novel,” from Rudy Rucker, “From the Mixed-Up Files of Lenore Beadsman,” Washington Post , January 11, 1987.

81 “an enormous surprise,” from Caryn James, “Wittgenstein is Dead and Living in Ohio,” New York Times , March 1, 1987.

82 “rich reserves,” from Michiko Kakutani, “Life in Cleveland, 1990,” New York Times, December 27, 1986.

82 “I didn’t think,” from a letter to Gerry Howard, January 2, 1987.

82 “kind of down,” from a letter to Gerry Howard, January 2, 1987.

82 “Bonnie, I’ve never had more difficulty,” from a letter to Bonnie Nadell, March 28, 1987.

82 “You would think,” from Helen Dudar, “A Whiz Kid and His Wacky First Novel,” Wall Street Journal , April 24, 1987.

83 “Nice, in a condescending way,” from a letter to Bonnie Nadell, April 30, 1987.

83 “I’m so nervous about the reading,” from a letter to Bonnie Nadell, March 28, 1987.

83 “The reading went really well,” from a letter to Bonnie Nadell, April 6, 1987.

84 “I guess the engagement,” from a letter to Bonnie Nadell, April 14, 1987.

84 “Could you give,” from a letter to Dale Peterson, circa April 18, 1987.

84 “I’m not interested in fiction,” quoted in William R. Katovsky, “Hang ’Im High,” Arrival , April 1987.

85 “It was my first hint,” from Lipsky, Although of Course , at 170.

85 “w/r/t the fact,” from a letter to Gerry Howard, April 25, 1988.

87 “try…to fuck,” from a letter to Bonnie Nadell, April 6, 1987.

87 “I am working on a lot,” from a letter to Dale Peterson, February 15, 1986.

87 “I think they’re good,” from a letter to Bonnie Nadell, February 11, 1986.

87 “Not a nice noise, Bonnie,” from a letter to Bonnie Nadell, September 7, 1987.

87 “too smart for its own good,” from Alice Turner, quoted in a letter to Bonnie Nadell, April 30, 1987.

87 “Wallace clearly is,” from a letter by C. Michael Curtis to Bonnie Nadell, June 2, 1986.

88 “cruising…at a wildly” and “Maybe to Breadloaf,” from a letter to JT Jackson June 9, 1987.

Chapter 4: Into the Funhouse

89 “God I feel lucky,” from a letter to JT Jackson, June 9, 1987.

90 “It is…important to” from John Barth, “Lost in the Funhouse” in Lost in the Funhouse (Anchor, 1988) at 74.

90 “The diving would make” from Barth, “Lost in the Funhouse,” at 82.

91 “this tiny, infinitely dense thing,” from Lipsky, Although of Course, at 229.

95 “I’ve never been,” from a postcard to JT Jackson, August 6, 1987.

96 “Who’s Who in the Cosmos 1987,” Esquire , August 1987.

98 “like, a week,” from Patrick Arden, “David Foster Wallace Warms Up,” Book Magazine , 1999.

98 “I’m sure page for page,” from a letter to Bonnie Nadell, September 20, 1987.

98 “in my view far and away” and “If the story seems pretentious,” from a letter to Jonathan Franzen, August 13–14, 1989.

99 “I actually cried in front,” from a letter to Bonnie Nadell, September 20, 1987.

99 “like a real person,” from a letter by Dale Peterson, August 7, 1987.

100 “less seedstrewn accommodations,” from a letter by Dale Peterson, July 27, 1987.

100 “Her little ticker didn’t,” from a letter by Dale Peterson, August 7, 1987.

100 “a horror show,” from the McCaffery interview.

100 “I wanted something,” from a letter to Jonathan Franzen, August 13–14, 1989.

101 “a kind of suicide note,” from Lipsky, Although of Course , at 61.

101 “picked up a bit,” from a letter to JT Jackson, September 20, 1987.

101 “not really all that nice,” from a letter to Corey Washington, September 25, 1987.

101 “I’m squatting amid boxes,” from a letter to Bonnie Nadell, September 2, 1987.

101 “Please please get me,” from a letter to Bonnie Nadell, September 20, 1987.

103 “I’m basically on my own,” from a letter to Forrest Ashby, September 13, 1987.

103 “The view from my apartment,” from a letter to a freind, November 9, 1987.

104 “just so unbelievably bad,” from Lipsky, Although of Course , at 62.

104 “I’ve hurt not just me,” from a letter to a friend, November 9, 1987.

105 “gorgeous new poetesses,” from a letter to JT Jackson, September 20, 1987.

105 “I think I’ve again,” from a letter to Forrest Ashby, February 8, 1988.

105 “too hung over,” from a letter to Corey Washington, February 8, 1988.

106 “Much fiction,” from a letter by Alice Turner, April 29, 1988.

107 “p. 148 David,” from a letter to Gerry Howard, April 25, 1988.

109 “They didn’t even think,” from Lipsky, Although of Course , at 225.

109 “daunting…but that obviously,” from a letter to Steven Moore, October 26, 1987.

112 “I miss the heat,” from a letter to Corey Washington, May 17, 1988.

113 “I’m enclosing a small,” from a letter to Dale Peterson, September 5, 1988.

115 “I’m having a lot of trouble,” from a letter to Jonathan Galassi, June 21, 1988.

116 “remote,” from a letter to Jonathan Franzen, September 11, 1988.

116 “By now I expect maybe you’ve heard,” from a letter to Bonnie Nadell, October 23, 1988.

117 “They were unpleasant,” from a letter to Rich C., December 30, 1988.

117 “Isn’t it a marvelous feeling,” from a letter by Gerry Howard, December 21, 1988.

118 “far and away the worst,” from a letter to Rich C., December 30, 1988.