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David Foster Wallace wasn't the star he'd one day become when he appeared in this 1996 interview on Charlie Rose, but was grappling with an issue that would concern him until his death: how to create art that pleases an audience, but reaches them in a much deeper way.

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David Foster Wallace wasn't the star he'd one day become when he appeared in this 1996 interview on Charlie Rose, but was grappling with an issue that would concern him until his death: how to create art that pleases an audience, but reaches them in a much deeper way.

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