“Tax law is like the world’s biggest game of chess with all sorts of weird conundrums about ethics and civics and the consent of the governed built in,” Wallace wrote in an email to his friend, the novelist Jonathan Franzen, in 2007. “For me it’s a bit like math: I have no talent for it but find it still erotically interesting.”
Bloomberg Business examines David Foster Wallace’s strange admiration for tax code and offers some of the late novelist’s advice, just in time for tax season.
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