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May 9, 2018 · In 2012, four years after the death of David Foster Wallace, Mary Karr wrote of him—and his loss—in her poem “Suicide’s Note: An Annual.” Wallace was not fully gone, the poet suggested ...
May 7, 2018 · On Friday, memoirist and poet Mary Karr wrote a Twitter post that alleged that David Foster Wallace threatened her and assaulted her when she was a single mom. This isn't the...
Jan 18, 2017 · “Sometimes people go on and on about David Foster Wallace. As though my contribution to literature is that I fucked him a couple times in the early 90s,” Karr responded. “Everybody in America owes me a dollar who read Infinite Jest .”
Oct 9, 2012 · Karr discussed the inspiration for this poem, David Foster Wallace's suicide, at a New Yorker panel last week. Slate has kindly provided a recap of the panel: Karr and Wallace had a stormy romantic relationship in the mid-’90s.
Nov 29, 2021 · In her 2009 memoir, Lit, Mary Karr spends less than four pages narrating the several years in which Wallace pursued her, leading to a brief romantic relationship that ended in vicious arguments and “his pitching my coffee table at me.”.
May 23, 2013 · Mary Karr: David Foster Wallace and I kept each other alive. The memoirist dishes on their friendship, James Frey and the conceit of the tortured artist.
In the early 1990s, Wallace was in a relationship with writer Mary Karr. She later described Wallace as obsessive about her and said the relationship was volatile, with Wallace once throwing a coffee table at her as well as physically forcing her out of a car, leaving her to walk home.
