October 17, 2008

Rolling Stone on Wallace's time at Amherst

As newspapers and magazines far and wide comment on the passing of David Foster Wallace last month, Rolling Stone has released part of its upcoming piece on Wallace, entitled “The Lost Years & Last Days of David Foster Wallace.” The profile will run in the October 30 issue of the magazine, and the section available online begins as Wallace heads to Amherst.

Writer David Lipsky interviews Wallace’s roommate Mark Costello, and describes Wallace’s outlook at Amherst, his dress code (“The look of parking-lot kids who in Illinois were called Dirt Bombs. ‘A slightly tough, slightly waste-product-y, tennis-playing persona,’ Costello says”), and his return to school after dropping out in his sophomore year.

He routinized his life. He’d be the first tray at the dining hall for supper, he’d eat, drink coffee dipped with tea bags, library study till 11, head back to the room, turn on Hawaii Five-O, then a midnight gulp from a scotch bottle.

We’ll post the complete story when it becomes available.

UPDATE, 10/31/08: The entire Rolling Stone article is now available.

Brian Meacham '97 | October 17, 2008 11:51 AM | Alumni

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