https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n21/gale-walden/diary Created Fri, 20/10/2023 - 00:00 Updated Fri, 20/10/2023 - 00:00 Even before he died, I avoided telling people I knew David Foster Wallace. If they knew who he was, they wanted to know details about him. I became a secondary character, as women often are.