Saturday, September 13, 2008

David Foster Wallace Dead

I was shocked to read this evening that writer David Foster Wallace committed suicide on Friday at his home in Claremont, California. While I didn't like everything he did, his books of essays, including A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again are great reads. He was an absolute real talent, and in passing, a tangible loss to American contemporary literature.

2 comments:

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PJG said...

the girl with the most curious hair still pretty much funniest thing i ever read. oh, and the thing about getting a distended colon from eating too much pie at the county fair.