David Foster Wallace, one of my favorite authors, died.
Brilliant writing.
I'm about halfway through my second reading of his massive Infinite Jest.
Chapter One excerpt on Powell's / on TIME Magazine's Top 100 Novels of All Time list
More cult-ish goodies: a scene-by-scene guide to Infinite Jest, alphabetic index to Infinite Jest, notes and speculation, The Infinite Jest Challenge.
A set of photos from reading in 2006
On Charlie Rose in 1997
Seriously, a big loss to American literature.
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i know - really sad. i've had infinite jest on my bookshelf for years meaning to get to it. i think now's the time...
your site is really interesting
I felt the same way when Douglas Adams died, although that technically was a loss for british lit.
The answer is out there, somewhere between 41 and 43.
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