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Elizabeth Wurtzel on Depression and David Foster Wallace -- New York Magazine
Elizabeth Wurtzel on Depression and David Foster Wallace -- New York Magazine
T he last time I spoke to David Wallace—who preferred to be called Dave, but I never quite could—was ten years ago, when I called him in his cabin in Bloomington, Illinois, from a pay phone at a halfway house for recovering drug addicts in Wilton, Connecticut. The conversation was unfortunately ...
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Jezebel — [image] [image] If, on this day of fear and instability , you'd like to feel worse about life, the universe, and everything, check out Elizabeth Wurtzel's piece on the late David Foster Wallace . She doesn't actually talk much about Wallace himself, but she does describe one's forties (Wallace was 46) as a brief respite between the crazy thirties and the bitter, disappointed fifties. Then she closes with these words of encouragement: "The world is, after all, a coarse and brutal and cruel place. It’s only a matter of how long you can live with it." ...

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