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D. T. Max

    D.T. Max is a staff writer for The New Yorker, known for his deep dives into compelling subjects. He crafts narratives that blend meticulous research with profound empathy, bringing to life intricate medical mysteries and the complex inner worlds of literary figures. His distinctive style lies in its ability to illuminate the human condition through rigorously reported yet deeply insightful storytelling. Max's work consistently offers readers a unique perspective, revealing the extraordinary within the ordinary.

    Jede Liebesgeschichte ist eine Geistergeschichte
    Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story
    The Family That Couldn't Sleep: A Medical Mystery
    The Family That Couldn't Sleep
    • »Wenn Sie Wallaces Werk lieben, müssen Sie dieses Buch lesen, lieben Sie Wallaces Werk nicht, müssen Sie es sogar unbedingt lesen!« Tom Bissell »Fiction’s about what it is to be a fucking human being.« David Foster Wallace. Mit Unendlicher Spaß wurde David Foster Wallace über Nacht zum Superstar der amerikanischen Literaturszene. 2008 nahm sich der begnadete Schriftsteller das Leben. D. T. Max hat sich auf die Suche nach dem einzig wahren David Foster Wallace gemacht und ein facettenreiches Porträt eines Mannes voller Widersprüche geschaffen: Aufgewachsen als Sohn eines Collegeprofessors und einer grammatikfanatischen Englischlehrerin in einer Kleinstadt im Mittleren Westen, war er ein begabter Teenager, Tennis-Nerd und Klassenclown, später dann Überflieger und große Stimme einer Generation. Sein Leben war geprägt von Alkoholismus, Drogenabhängigkeit, Panikattacken und Depressionen – ein andauernder Tanz am Abgrund. D. T. Max zeigt die Extreme in Wallaces Leben: Entdeckungen, Dramen, Liebe, Langeweile, Ängste, Krankheiten, Glücksmomente und Fehlentscheidungen. Mit Jede Liebesgeschichte ist eine Geistergeschichte legt D. T. Max eine Biographie vor, die sich wie ein Roman liest – ein unverzichtbares Werk!

      Jede Liebesgeschichte ist eine Geistergeschichte2014
      4.2
    • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story

      A Life of David Foster Wallace

      • 352 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      The first biography of the most influential writer of his generation, David Foster Wallace David Foster Wallace was the leading literary light of his era, a man who not only captivated readers with his prose but also mesmerized them with his brilliant mind. In this, the first biography of the writer, D. T. Max sets out to chart Wallace’s tormented, anguished and often triumphant battle to succeed as a novelist as he fights off depression and addiction to emerge with his masterpiece, Infinite Jest. Since his untimely death by suicide at the age of forty-six in 2008, Wallace has become more than the quintessential writer for his time—he has become a symbol of sincerity and honesty in an inauthentic age. In the end, as Max shows us, what is most interesting about Wallace is not just what he wrote but how he taught us all to live. Written with the cooperation of Wallace’s family and friends and with access to hundreds of his unpublished letters, manuscripts, and audio tapes, this portrait of an extraordinarily gifted writer is as fresh as news, as intimate as a love note, as painful as a goodbye.

      Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story2013
      3.9
    • Fatal Familial Insomnia is a rare, inherited disease that has afflicted one noble Venetian family for centuries, striking at random and passing from generation to generation like a deadly dynastic curse. The cause? A rogue protein called a prion, which is impossible to destroy and is also responsible for Mad Cow Disease and scrapie in sheep.

      The Family That Couldn't Sleep2008
      4.2
    • Explores prions, enigmatic brain proteins, and their influence on human life, examining the case of an Italian family victimized for two centuries by a fatal familial insomnia, and the links between prions and various brain maladies

      The Family That Couldn't Sleep: A Medical Mystery2007
      4.1