David Foster Wallace was an arrogant prick but he did write an essay about 9/11 I still think about

I think of many things, of course, on this day. But this aberration of an essay has always stayed with me.

It helps me to tell my thought process at times related to stories because it makes my writing more intimate and true. So here is a picture of my dear dead friend Elizabeth Wurtzel and her dear dead ex-lover David Foster Wallace which is how I’ll lead up to the essay itself.

I wrote an essay upon the passing of Elizabeth Wurtzel in 2020, wherein I mentio…