The Millions: What initially drew you to Wallace? Was his work the kind of stuff you typically read?

D.T. Max: Well, I had this long love affair with David — embarrassingly enough, I loved the wrong book. I loved Broom of the System for most of my 20s and 30s. It was only when I wrote the piece after his death that I found out he had turned on the book. I didn’t know that he referred to it as written by a very smart 14 year-old. It stunned me.
A Supposedly Brief Interview with D.T. Max by Alex Engebretson

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