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Astute observer lost with death of David Foster Wallace

October 4, 2008 By DAVID L. ULIN Los Angeles Times. David L. Ulin is the book editor of the Los Angeles Times.

I didn't know David Foster Wallace all that well. We met a couple of times, and once, in the lead-up to the 2004 presidential election, we spent an hour or so on the phone one afternoon discussing politics, which he followed with the rabid fascination of someone who, despite all better judgment, believed the process mattered, that somehow, somewhere, there was a candidate who might see us through.

I...

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