Blank on Blank — Season 1, Episode 7: David Foster Wallace on Ambition
Documentary • 6 min • 1 season, 80 episodes • ★ 7.0/10
Episode synopsis
"If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything." - David Foster Wallace Interview by Leonard Lopate, WNYC March 4, 1996 Interview originally aired on the Leonard Lopate Show
About Blank on Blank
Vintage interview tapes. New animations. The mission is simple: curate and transform journalists' unheard interviews with American icons. The future of journalism is remixing the past.
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