Doesn't anyone have reservations about this piece? Picking apart his depression and history, psychoanalyzing the notes he wrote in his private books and his anonymous posting - doesn't that seem wrong, like literary rubbernecking? His work stands on its own and it's what he wanted to and did express to the world.
On Inside David Foster Wallace's Private Self-Help Library
Doesn't anyone have reservations about this piece? Picking apart his depression and history, psychoanalyzing the notes he wrote in his private books and his anonymous posting - doesn't that seem wrong, like literary rubbernecking? His work stands on its own and it's what he wanted to and did express to the world.