David Foster Wallace

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By platypus on Sunday, September 14, 2008 - 12:46 am:

    requisat in pacem

By jack on Sunday, September 14, 2008 - 03:26 am:

    this sucks

By semillama on Sunday, September 14, 2008 - 02:13 pm:

    Very much sucks. The man was brilliant.

By Spider on Sunday, September 14, 2008 - 03:20 pm:

    I thought he had already died? Am I thinking of someone else?

By Spider on Sunday, September 14, 2008 - 03:21 pm:

    Ah, yes, John Kennedy Toole.

By agatha on Sunday, September 14, 2008 - 08:22 pm:

    He was an amazing writer. I never did get through Infinite Jest, but I read enough to recognize his brilliance. I'm betting that he was severely bipolar.

By patrick on Monday, September 15, 2008 - 04:25 pm:

    i got several hundred pages into infinite jest and was mostly bored and annoyed with the exceessive use of footnotes as it made for a mostly unpleasant read. Clearly a lot of people who are a lot smarter than I attest to his "genius" but i cannot say one way or another.

    obviously he was troubled.

By Nate on Monday, September 15, 2008 - 05:52 pm:

By patrick on Monday, September 15, 2008 - 06:43 pm:

    axle?

    dontcha ya just love charlie. the caliber of guests and his manner of interview are unparalleled in modern journalism.

By platypus on Monday, September 15, 2008 - 07:29 pm:

    And now Richard Wright...the trifecta is now in play.

By kazu on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 - 01:50 pm:

    I never cared for his fiction, but I love his
    essays. I taught one of them in my writing class.

By sarah on Friday, September 19, 2008 - 12:49 pm:


    sad. i loved Brief Interviews with Hideous Men.