![]() ![]() He also happens to be one of the most ambitious and talented writers of his generation. In reality, however, Wallace is a strange, very intelligent man with bad clothes who looks in public as if he'd prefer to be wearing a full mask but makes do with a scarf over his head. ![]() In the happy publicity vocabulary of Nice Cover Quotes and glossy mag author profiles, Wallace is a soulful Gen-Xer with long, light brown hair, an eccentric bandanna, a girlfriend, a tennis background and the added glamour of deep thoughts and a successful rehab history. The publicity that surrounded Wallace and that difficult, brilliant, heavily promoted but little-read novel provides a good working example of the differences between the agent-editor-media matrix's vision of a serious writer and one who actually is serious. Novel, "Infinite Jest," had just been issued in paperback. ![]() The hook for the appearance was that Wallace's Wallace showed up on the "Charlie Rose" show. A couple of years ago the young novelist, essayist and short story writer David ![]()
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