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Posted by dyedon8 on 2008-09-14 05:17:56 +0000

L: NYT.

Posted by tgl on 2008-09-14 14:55:20 +0000

My first news.

Posted by MF DU on 2008-09-14 17:18:12 +0000

Suicide? Wow - I had no idea. Utterly Tragic.

Posted by dyedon8 on 2008-09-14 17:50:12 +0000

Newsweek.

Posted by ConorClockwise on 2008-09-14 17:57:54 +0000

Sounds like this wasn't completely out of nowhere. Always sucks though. The main difference between suicide and martyrdom is the press coverage.

Posted by pamsterdam on 2008-09-14 18:05:38 +0000

Words fail me. My heart goes out to everyone affected - not only those affected by the loss of DFW, but all those affected by the [expletive deleted] illness that caused his death.

Posted by tgl on 2008-09-14 18:29:19 +0000

I guess I can stop waiting for Wallace's "Everyman" or his "The Bellarosa Connection". Tragic, but not shocking.

Posted by tgl on 2008-09-14 18:50:12 +0000

DFW on JSM at WSJ

Posted by dyedon8 on 2008-09-14 19:08:01 +0000

Re-read that story you thought was a Hemingway knockoff through this new lens and let me know if you think it's changed at all.

Posted by MF DU on 2008-09-15 01:15:22 +0000

[expletive deleted] illness is right. I wish there was a way someone could have helped him to relieve his suffering.

Posted by MF DU on 2008-09-15 01:20:46 +0000

I love the last paragraph in the WSJ article about signing too many of your own damn books.

Posted by pamsterdam on 2008-09-15 02:01:09 +0000

This made me cry. Just heartbreaking. I find it so... deeply infuriating that this is an illness which has the very real potential to be terminal, so few people talk openly about it, and so many people feel embarrassed to be afflicted by it.

Posted by ConorClockwise on 2008-09-15 07:12:22 +0000

Same lens? New energy.

Posted by mahatma chani on 2008-09-19 11:01:51 +0000

Read his obit in the International Herald Tribune (The New York Times overseas edition -- Cost: $3.75 for 22 pages of mostly wire stories and the crossword). Needless to say, I was suprised. My condolences to all. I reminded the Gecko about the general synopsis for "Infinite Jest" who promptly said: "why would anybody want to read that? Sounds like a massive insider joke to me."

Posted by tgl on 2008-09-19 13:29:28 +0000

Except, the joke's on us.

Posted by dyedon8 on 2008-09-19 17:38:31 +0000

The joke is always on us, sometimes.

Posted by MF DU on 2008-09-19 17:57:12 +0000

I bemoaned our consumerist society, gave a shout out to DFW / 'Infinite Jest' and led that rant into "Showroom Dummies" by Kraftwerk this week.

Posted by dyedon8 on 2008-09-22 00:27:57 +0000

Posted by tgl on 2008-09-22 02:07:38 +0000

Wallace's description of the stretch of Prospect St. from Central to Inman was spot on. Can't remember it at the moment. Something along the lines of howling wind, concrete and swirling trash.

Posted by tgl on 2008-09-22 02:09:05 +0000

I remember exclaiming: That's not where Mayflower is!

Posted by tgl on 2008-09-22 02:17:19 +0000

A.O. Scott on DFW Wallace also gets a nod in Jonathan Lethem's piece on The Dark Knight

Posted by MF DU on 2008-09-25 18:14:57 +0000

Re-reading 'Oblivion' right now - The first story about the focus group testing the chocolate Felonies™ product is entertaining and painfully detailed about statistical analysis.

Posted by dyedon8 on 2008-12-03 03:17:29 +0000

http://www.kottke.org/08/12/new-fiction-from-david-foster-wallace before he died, David Foster Wallace was working on a larger work of fiction presumed by some to be a new novel, his first since the 1996 publication of Infinite Jest. Word comes from Chaffey College that "An Untitled Chunk" of that larger work will be published in the school's literary review magazine. The link above has more infomartion and links over on to Chaffey's literary review magazine.

Posted by tgl on 2008-12-03 03:27:00 +0000

Hrmm... "Before his health deteriorated..." Was he terminally ill?

Posted by dyedon8 on 2008-12-03 03:36:04 +0000

You could call crippling depression a terminal illness, I think.

Posted by ConorClockwise on 2008-12-03 03:43:49 +0000

"Let's go to the video tape..."

Posted by MF DU on 2008-12-03 12:40:46 +0000

The Rolling Stone piece on DFW's demise (Obama on the cover from a few months back) was excellent, albeit heartbreaking. I cried a little bit in the auto repair waiting room I read it in where it went into details about his parents and his last days.

Posted by tgl on 2008-12-03 15:31:27 +0000

Right.

Posted by tgl on 2009-03-05 00:47:53 +0000

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101434881

Posted by dyedon8 on 2009-03-05 05:30:47 +0000

Whoa.

Posted by MF DU on 2009-03-05 13:51:30 +0000

I missed that on the radio this a.m. as I was getting ready for work - thanks for the repost, I would have totally snoozed on that.

Posted by TheFullCleveland on 2009-03-05 17:09:19 +0000

Bought Infinite Jest this past weekend - hope to get through it within a year or two.