David Foster Wallace unedited interview (2003)

This is the full unedited interview David Foster Wallace gave to the German television station, ZDF, in 2003. Check out these David Foster Wallace books on Amazon! The Life of David Foster Wallace: Conversations with David Foster Wallace: Infinite Jest: 29:54 “No, it’s um ... I mean, there’s a difference, though, I think, between being mildly bored and but then there’s another kind of boredom that I think you’re talking about which is um: reading, reading requires sitting alone, by yourself, in a quiet room. And I have friends, intelligent friends, who don’t like to read because they get -- it’s not just bored -- there’s an almost dread that comes up, I think, here about having to be alone and having to be quiet. And you see that when you walk in. When you walk into most public spaces in America it isn’t quiet anymore; they pipe music through. And the music’s easy to make