Sunday, September 14, 2008

Farewell, David Foster Wallace

The literary world was hit with the shocking news this weekend of the passing of a writer of rare brilliance. Widely respected author David Foster Wallace committed suicide at his home in Claremont, California, on Friday night.


And I still hadn't read "Infinite Jest."

2 comments:

Ramiro Sanchiz said...

shocking news! I love "infinite jest"... 2008 turned out to be a dreadful year for great writers... first Thomas Disch, now Foster Wallace...

Mac said...

Hunter Thompson's suicide still seems fairly recent to me as well.