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>mfw I just finished reading A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again last night to my wife and now she wants to read more of him

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What was his best short story?

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Crying of Lot 49

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if he's so smart, how come he's dead?

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Finally finished IJ after 4 months of reading

How long until I should wait to re-read it?

Also, why'd he do it boys?

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Ted Kaczynski killed and maimed for full-page ads in the WaPo and NYT

David Foster Wallace hung himself in an effort, via pity, to promote his works to the canon

Proust used his fortune to pay hack writers to write glowing reviews for his work

Walt Whitman used his editorial position at the Brooklyn Eagle to write glowing reviews of his poems under pseudonyms

What are some other ways to get your work the attention it doesn't deserve?

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>tfw you finally realize the meaning of life is love
>tfw you also realize you are an autistic asshole capable of loving or being loved

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>hit in the 90s
>beloved by white undergraduates who think it makes them intellectual
>rips off older, better work
Don't make me say it

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>>12867423
This. OP was, at the least, acting Sincere.

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1 like = 1 suicide attempt

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>David Foster Wallace was born in Ithaca, New York, to Sally Jean Wallace (née Bauman) and James Donald Wallace, a jewish publisher with ties to the bilderburg group.

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