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He wrote Forrest Ashby that he was thinking of moving to Canada to be a high school teacher.
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
This was the hubris of mankind, to rally in the face of overwhelming odds, to thread the needle and climb the mountain and survive the storm.
Noah Hawley • Before the Fall
don’t bore the reader with a cast of stiff “whitebread” names.
Daniel Calvisi • Story Maps: How to Write a GREAT Screenplay
William Vollmann, whose collection The Rainbow Stories
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace

There was already a well-known nature writer named David Rains Wallace, so Fred Hill, Nadell’s boss, who had once worked for Sierra Club Books, suggested he use his full name.