I’m a little bit afraid to write about my teacher, David Foster Wallace, because he was important to me, and I don’t want to mess it up. Everything he wrote was – Wallace spoke, emailed, and composed course descriptions in the same precise style as his famous prose.) I wrote this admonishment down in a notebook where I collected things Wallace said that I never wanted to forget. Wallace had his reasons for grammatical zealotry in the classroom, but it wasn’t about being Gradgrindian or prescriptive. Books to give you hope: This is Water by David Foster Wallace Read moreThe first thing Wallace asked me that first day, when I showed up in his office angling for a place in his workshop, was why I wanted to take his class.

Source: The Guardian September 12, 2016 12:56 UTC