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My Friend Laura Lee Spoke With Ken Kalfus Last Month
And here they are:
LAURA THARP: I recently re-read Infinite Jest and was again blown away. How did David Foster Wallace come to blurb your work?
KEN KALFUS: Wallace published some of my first short stories in The Sonora Review, the literary magazine of the University of Arizona at Tucson, in the 1980s. He was pursuing his MFA there, and he was the journal’s fiction editor. We exchanged some notes afterward. Years later, when Thirst was about to be published, he was very kind to write a comment for it. We met for the first time in 1999, when I did a reading at the University of Illinois, where he was then teaching.
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