Ramblings in a State of Insanity
David Foster Wallace’s archive acquired
The University of Texas has acquired the David Foster Wallace Archive. Some of the archive is here, along with his heavily annotated copy of Don DeLillo’s Player’s (which I have not yet read) and Borges: A Life by Edwin Williamson.
The collection is both fascinating and sad — sad that there has to be one of these University collections at all instead of 50 years from now.
I am about 800 pages into Infinite Jest.
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