The Prophecy of David Foster Wallace
Exploring Wallace’s prescient take on media, loneliness, and the age of overstimulation
Every time I come across a quote from David Foster Wallace or a clip from one of his angst-riddled interviews, I spiral into a binge of consuming his writing. What makes him so contagious for me isn’t just his humor, wit, or his audacity to write a 1,000+ page novel like Infinite Jest. No. It’s how extraordinarily prescient his words remain.
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