I HAD FORGOTTEN that a full-length biography of David Foster Wallace was on the way.  I’m not as much of a fan as DFW as I should be: I have yet to read my way through Infinite Jest.  But I’ve read his work here and there, short stories and essays and movies based on his work.  “This is Water” is one of my favorite “speeches,” and I appreciate the window on a past time that Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself provides.

So I was surprised when I saw D. T. Max’s Every Love Story is a Ghost Story on the shelf at Barnes and Noble Saturday.  I didn’t make the buy, seeing as how it wasn’t on sale and I was in the midst of Chbosky’s Wallflower novel.  But then I came across this article over at The Daily Beast’s The Dish.  The entry, written by guest-writer Matthew Sitman, takes its title from Wallace’s graduation speech, “This is Water.”  The point of the entry is Wallace’s religious side, which isn’t something one hears about much about when it comes to most writers in general.  It’s easy to assume that the only spiritual writers are the ones writing for the religious press.  I’m only fifty pages into the book now (bought it on the way to church Sunday morning), and there’s not much about that spiritual quest to be found.  But much like Sitman, I am hopeful to see it in there somewhere.