DAVID FOSTER WALLACE: A lot of this is gonna get cut out, right?

CHARLIE ROSE: Perhaps. But I’ll make the deicsion as to what’s cut out.

David Foster Wallace on Charlie Rose, March 27, 1997.

With honor and distinction, Erik Henriksen served as the executive editor of the Portland Mercury from 2004 to 2020. He can now be found at henriksenactual.com.