The Unfinished
The sadness over the author’s death, D. T. Max writes, was also connected to a feeling that, for all his outpouring of words, he died with his work incomplete.
"Fiction's about what it is to be a fucking human being," David Foster Wallace said. Good writing should help readers "become less alone inside." But the sadness over his death was connected to a feeling that, for all his outpouring of words, he died with his work incomplete.