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Monday 17 November 2008 | 2 cookies in the jar
His final, devastating bout with depression robbed him—and thereby his readers—of an essay he was likely born to write: a piece on Barack Obama and rhetoric, commissioned earlier this year by GQ. Bonnie Nadell, Wallace’s agent throughout (“we grew up in publishing together”) described conversations between the two and Wallace’s wife Karen on their enthusiasm [...]
it has a name, it has a name, the thing I wrote “house” about? it has a name
Monday 17 November 2008 | 9 cookies in the jar
He will typically become immersed in his special interest—often his work—and will be disinterested in the minutiae of everyday life. He will have fixed ideas about things and will respond badly to being asked to do something that does not correspond to these fixed ideas. Typically he will not be in the slightest bit snobbish. [...]
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