Uploaded June 2015 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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D.T. Max reads from his New York Times bestselling book, Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace. A staff writer at The New Yorker, Max is also the author of The Family That Couldn’t Sleep: A Medical Mystery. He appeared as part of the Dedmon Writer in Residence Program.

Presented by the Claire and Emmett Dedmon Visiting Writers Program and the Committee on Creative Writing.


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