David Foster Wallace on failure
David Foster Wallace, author of Infinite Jest, Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, Broom of the System, and A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, amongst many others, apparently hanged himself Friday night, according to the New York Times.
Wallace's work was, in no particular order: darkly absurd; were one to indulge in hyperbole, brilliant; obsessively grammatical; reference-tome-like; achingly referential; uncannily surreal; SNOOT-ish; oddly moving; satirized in The Onion; wryly observant; fetishisticly-footnoted; often excruciatingly long; and, as of Friday night, will be produced no longer.
Another Random Bit: The Perspective of David Foster Wallace
LINKS:
New York Times Article on Wallace's Death
"Roger Federer as Religious Experience" (article) by David Foster Wallace
"Good People" (story) by David Foster Wallace
"Tense Present: Democracy, English, and the Wars over Usage" (article) by David Foster Wallace
Uncollected David Foster Wallace Stories (via The Howling Fantoids)
Girlfriend Stops Reading David Foster Wallace Breakup Letter At Page 20 (The Onion)
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