Sublime

Wallace wasn’t clear on what he wanted, unless it was to be left alone—except when he didn’t.

Like Ickes, Wallace was a nominal Republican; also like Ickes, he was unknown to the president-elect before his appointment.

BILL GATES

Emma and Wallace had become friends by virtue of the fact that neither of them was a white man in their program.

“Wallace does not, in fact, tell the story. Instead he inhabits for extended moments the airspace around his characters.”

Wallace’s cruise ship piece was about the price of failing to choose well.

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.

JEFF BEZOS