Coming Out of the Shadow of David Foster Wallace’s Suicide

David Foster Wallace wrote the book that promised Generation X you could make demanding art and still be heard — and twelve years later, he was gone. JB Minton uses The End of the Tour, and the confession buried inside its late-night hotel-room scene, to ask what Infinite Jest actually warned us about, and why the warning outlived the man who wrote it. This is an essay about attention, fame, and the cost of being right too early.