Local Writer Remembers David Foster Wallace: Saturday Event at Words
Budhos will host event with Wallace biographer DT Max, at Words Bookstore on Oct. 20.
In 1989, when I was still a novice writer, I spent the summer at Yaddo, the beautiful writer’s colony in Saratoga Springs. It’s a fairly intimidating and luxurious atmosphere (butterballs served at dinner!) for any new writer still trying to get a handle on a first novel. One feels both anointed and yet hollow, inadequate. It was there I met—among many other writers—David Foster Wallace. Already, there was a bit of star aura around David—he was clearly brilliant, and his difficult, opaque and challenging first collection, The Broom of the System, had been published. Downstairs in the main room of Yaddo’s Victorian house was the mail table—and it was hard not notice the big packages that came for David—from publishers, from Michael …
Marcia Worth
7:24 pm on Thursday, October 18, 2012
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