David Foster Wallace and Addiction and Recovery (and History)
Maria Bustillos, of TheAwl.com has written a thoughtful (long) commentary on the collection of carefully read, highlighted, and annotated recovery/self-help books in the newly opened David Foster Wallace Papers at UT Austin’s Harry Ransom Center. Her well-documented essay addresses a question about which there has been much speculation since DFW’s suicide in 2008: did he identify …