David foster wallace: threw a coffee table at a woman, raped a 17 year old while on tour, stalked a 5 year old child, pushed woman from a moving car, threatened to kill a guy.... why do literary people still stan him? "buhhh but uh irony is the problem"
>He pushed the poet and memoirist Mary Karr from a speeding vehicle.
>He threw a coffee table at Karr and shattered it.
>After attempting to pay Karr back for destroying the table he threw at her, he demanded that she give him shards of the table to keep.
>He stalked Karr and punched out her car window.
>He assaulted a student during a creative writing class he was teaching.
>He had sex with his creative writing students and, while on book tour, a 17-year-old.
>He stalked Karr and her five-year-old son, and threatened to shoot Karr’s husband with a gun he’d bought for that express purpose.

https://medium.com/@devonprice/a-brief-on-hideous-things-about-david-foster-wallace-72034b20de94?fbclid=IwAR3Te8EPX0-OZceCh4uHe2EjPQeqYPuGeOALA8z4JtCmz1BteW5o5ss23jQ
And you all still think he’s some self-help guru?