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more about #davidfosterwallace more comments → kithkin: You guys, I am really sick and sad about this death. I'm so sick and sad about it I'm posting seven hours after the last post. I cried for DAYS in Sep... more » SomeAuthorGirl: In retrospect, I wish I'd started reading his work sooner than I did. It was enjoyable for starters, but it also taught me to fear my own work less, i... more » mbprice: Question: I'll be needing another book to read soonish, and I am considering picking up some DFW. However. I don't usually go for the genius-but-impos... more » PilgrimSoul: I would love it if dudes would get over his death. The idolization is creepy and kinda infantilizing. I've become a fan of DFW's essays, don't get me... more » morninggloria: His Kenyon College commencement address is among the most inspiring pieces I've ever read. more » Mary McCarthyite: DFW is going to go down in literary history as being more celebrated, more mythologized, more talented than, perhaps, any other writer in the last 100... more » billybobnyc: "his writing encourages the constant questioning and revising of every single thought." No, that is not a healthy way to live your life. No wonder he ... more » Miss Smith Drank Your Vodka: But I believe that only if you do this, and only if you are willing to examine those choices again and again and again, will you come even close to u... more » rocknrollunicorn: His wife's summary of the week leading to his death is interesting, and quite familiar, to me. My father is an alcoholic and every time he binges, in ... more » formergr: It's interesting that this piece says that DFW stopped taking Nardil because of concerns it was interfering with his creative process, and then didn't... more » Eleanor Ramilly: You'll have to excuse me because it's been a while since I read Infinite Jest, but do you remember in the beginning of the book when the young girl is... more » PilgrimSoul: I did not like DFW's fiction, particularly, but have been reading his essays since his death and enjoying them. But I find this fetishizing of his me... more » MockMyWorld: Jeez, this is all so serious, insightful and interesting that I can't even make any Axl Rose jokes. more » Sev: I'm really tired of this idea that says in order to be creative one must be a tortured soul. Of course, I say that knowing I want to be a creative per... more » Schm: I'm not sure how I feel about the publishing of The Pale King so soon. Apparently he hadn't finished it yet and the manuscript was still laying aroun... more » -
#posthumouspublications
Times Writer Responds To David Foster Wallace Commencement Address
"The glory of the work and the tragedy of the life are relations but not friends, informants but not intimates. Exult in one; weep for the other." — Tom Bissell on David Foster Wallace [NYT] -
#postmortems
New Yorker Gives New Perspective On David Foster Wallace
D.T. Max has a heart-wrenching piece about David Foster Wallace in this week's New Yorker, including a description of his unfinished novel and new insight from friends and loved ones about his life and death. More » -
#famousfeminists
John Krasinski: Feminist Filmmaker?
John Krasinski, the actor best known as Jim from The Office, says he's proud of his directorial debut, which he calls a “feminist movie.” More » -
#rip
People We'll Miss In 2009
Newsweek has a roundup of famous people who died in 2008 — here are some of the ones we'll miss the most, along with a few additions from our archives.
