When David Markson wrote in June to complain about an author’s getting an award he though should have been his, Wallace gently warned him away from the pitfall of envy: “Mostly I try to remember how lucky I am to be able to write, and doubly, triply lucky I am that anyone else is willing to read it, to say nothing of publishing it. I’m no pollyanna – this keeping-the-spirits-up shit is hard work, and I don’t often do it well. But I try… Life is good

When David Markson wrote in June to complain about an author’s getting an award he though should have been his, Wallace gently warned him away from the pitfall of envy: “Mostly I try to remember how lucky I am to be able to write, and doubly, triply lucky I am that anyone else is willing to read it, to say nothing of publishing it. I’m no pollyanna – this keeping-the-spirits-up shit is hard work, and I don’t often do it well. But I try… Life is good

– D.T. Max –

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

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