On this day in 1962 an alright dude was born. I never met him, so I can only assume by his writing that he was an alright dude. But to write as he did, he had to be alright. 

  
Here is a great profile of David Foster Wallace written by Bill Katovsky published in McSweeney’s

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/david-foster-wallace-a-profile