Justine Tal Goldberg writes about the David Foster Wallace archive at the Harry Ransom Center for the Observer, Archived Soul:
A quick elevator ride later, I’m in the basement with Wallace’s papers examining drafts of “Democracy and Commerce at the U.S. Open,” an essay he wrote for Tennis Magazine in 1996.
“Proofs with his obsessive comments,” Schwartzburg says, pointing to a moment in which Wallace requests that the word “headquarters” appear as “HQ.” He was a fan of acronyms. “And this is one of the things you see throughout the collection. He asks questions about house style, as you can see. But he’s really involved and very concerned and often rejects changes that are all about very small visual characteristics of the piece. He’s extraordinarily concerned with all of that.”
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