Framed by a present-day narrative involving close friend Jeremiah Newton's efforts to give Candy's funeral urn a final resting place (in tiny Cherry Valley, New York -- the significance of which is never explained), the documentary recounts in vivid detail the fast-burning life of Warhol's...
Newly awake, I restarted the essay, suddenly enraptured by Wallace’s descriptions of the Midwest (a place “informed and deformed by wind”) and his reflections on his stint as a junior tennis player (“I was at my very best in bad conditions”). This latter assessment read like a reve...