Consider the Sister
May 14, 2026 at 04:30PMAmy Wallace has given few interviews about her older brother, the acclaimed writer David Foster Wallace, since his death by suicide in 2008. In a thoughtful profile, Lindsey Adler focuses on the younger Wallace sibling, now “the only living member of the nuclear Foster Wallace family,” and her challenging relationship with her brother.
In the course of subjecting Amy to many, many hours of conversations about herself, her brother, and my own writing life and hangups about it, I found someone who is as entertaining as she is earnest. Scrutiny around David’s upbringing is inevitably scrutiny of her own upbringing, though hardly any of those critics care to understand her experience—or even know she exists. She carries that family trait of delighting in absurdity. She hasn’t deified or demonized her brother despite the persistent desire in the literary community to do one or the other.
from Longreads https://longreads.com/2026/05/14/david-foster-wallace-sister-amy/
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