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If "Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself" was more of a shining view of the writer, "Every Love Story Is A Ghost Story" is the balancing point. The side of Wallace that makes those unfamiliar with the effects of severe depression cringe, and at times, loathe his behavior. As a caring human of the man DFW and his works, this biography poked at pieces of me (him) that did what good fiction does: inspire understanding and change.

"...The Wittgensteinian stance that the world is nothing but observed facts, a proposition that leads, as Wallace would write [...] to the belief that 'one's head is, in some sense, the whole world.'"

Read (June 2016)

Confession: I never finished Infinite Jest 😔😵, but I really love his non-fiction essays. Looking forward to learning more about this fascinating writer!

Fascinating, somber portrait of a brilliant man and the pain that ultimately consumed him. Deep, mostly impartial research occasionally feels laden with a thoroughly offputting agenda, but doesn't mar the entire experience.