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David Foster Wallace, whose writing evoked comparisons to Pynchon and Borges, died on Friday. The LA Times reports his wife found that he hanged himself in their Pomona, CA home (he taught creative writing at Pomona College). LA Times book editor David Ulin, in NYC for a National Book Critics Circle Board meeting yesterday, said, "What was a party is now a wake. People were speechless and just blown away." Wallace wrote a number of books, but his tour-de-force was Infinite Jest, a 1,079-page novel that Jay McInerney, in the NY Times Book Review, called "something like a sleek Vonnegut chassis wrapped in layers of post-millennial Zola.” Here's a profile of Wallace that Frank Bruni wrote for the NY Times Magazine in 1996.
David Foster Wallace, Author of Infinite Jest, Dies at 46
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D.F.W. commencement speech at Kenyon University, 2005: http://www.marginalia.org/dfw_kenyon_commencement.html
Also check out the last paragraphs of his wikipedia entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Foster_Wallace
The NYT's obit with it's rather disparaging quote by McInerny feels like it's trying to obscure the obvious. One of the country's moral recorders decided to check out before Palin time begins.
F*ck. F*ck. F*ck. I feel so sorry for his family. This is just terrible.
You don't check out, you sort of kill all your
friends that loved you ,that is the worst of
suicide,it's so selfish .
However in some cultures it is honorable and
a deliverance to another life hopefully a better
one.
whaaaaaat? i can't believe it.
I was a student of his. I'm so stunned by this that I don't even know what to say. Of all the crazy creative types I've known, he seemed to be one of the sanest. I know most suicides are impulsive and I really wish someone had been there for him when he needed it.
it's nothing but sad. another brilliant mind lost too soon.
there's always been a connection with great artists and mental disorders