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“He [Wallace] sent a quick note to his friend [Franzen] explaining his behavior. "the bold fact is that I'm a little afraid of you right now,"[...] "all I can tell you is that I may have been that [a worthy opponent] for you a couple/ three years ago, and maybe 16 months or tow or 5 or 10 years hence, but right now I am a pathetic and very confused man, a failed writer at 28, who is so jealous, so sickly searing envious of you and Vollmann and Mark Leyner and even David Fuckward Leavitt and any young man who is right now producing pages with which he can live and even approving them off some base-clause of conviction about the entrprise's meaning and end that I consider suicide a reasonable- if not at this point a desirable- option with respect to the whole wretched problem.”

Suicide David Foster Wallace Jonathan Franzen Literary Genius William T Vollmann David Leavitt Mark Leyner

Book:Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace

Source: Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace

“A younger writer, David Leavitt, would later say he envied White for having “such a representative life”. And it’s true: the zeitgeist blew through White more easily than it did through most people.”

Gay Writers David Leavitt Edmund White

Book:Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

Source: Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America