My favorite author, David Foster Wallace, killed himself this weekend in LA. He was 46. I don't really have anything to say other than his death makes me sad.
seana dug up a Salon interview and among the gobs of authors/works he mentions, in particular he mentions a Donald Barthelme story called "The Balloon" as being that thing he read which made him want to be a writer. Just found it on our bookshelf and am about to re-read it.
(our campus is semi-flooded and classes were cancelled and everyone is sort of goofing off and but so...) I found DFW's commencement address to Kenyon College linked by The New Republic and, man, it's worth reading. Parts are, in retrospect, poignant. But, mainly it's so "him":
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this is a heart breaker.
completely shocking.
seana dug up a Salon interview and among the gobs of authors/works he mentions, in particular he mentions a Donald Barthelme story called "The Balloon" as being that thing he read which made him want to be a writer. Just found it on our bookshelf and am about to re-read it.
And but so....
(our campus is semi-flooded and classes were cancelled and everyone is sort of goofing off and but so...) I found DFW's commencement address to Kenyon College linked by The New Republic and, man, it's worth reading. Parts are, in retrospect, poignant. But, mainly it's so "him":
http://www.marginalia.org/dfw_kenyon_commencement.html
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