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My Brush with the Pale King

Teddy Wayne's writeup about meeting David Foster Wallace 10 years ago, My Brush with the Pale King
 
Ten years ago, almost to the day, I handed in my undergraduate thesis on David Foster Wallace’s magnum opus, “Infinite Jest.” A few weeks later, I received an exciting email from the English department. Wallace was coming to campus to give a reading preceding the annual senior thesis conference. I was not only invited to be one of eight seniors reading from their theses in front of the department and the visiting author, but did I want to pick up the MacArthur “Genius” at the airport?
 
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