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David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and university professor of English and creative writing. Wallace's 1996 novel Infinite Jest was cited by Time magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. [1]
- Infinite Jest (1996)
Sep 20, 2019 · In the wake of his tragic suicide, his friends and family reveal the lifelong struggle of a beautiful mind. David Foster Wallace, an author, at The Strand bookstore in New York, Jan. 11, 2006 ...
The note David Foster Wallace left to his wife—a privacy I would never breach—nevertheless leaves me in an awe of pained curiosity. Hart Crane, one of my favorite poets, eschewed a note entirely, merely shouting “Goodbye, everyone!” as he leapt from the deck of the steamship Orizaba. What remained of the artist in these notes (or the ...
Oct 9, 2012 · Like Jonathan Franzen’s essay on Wallace in the New Yorker—another literary consideration of the author by a close friend—“Suicide’s Note” sounds furious at times. At the New Yorker ...
May 9, 2018 · In 2012, four years after the death of David Foster Wallace, Mary Karr wrote of him—and his loss—in her poem “Suicide’s Note: An Annual.” Wallace was not fully gone, the poet suggested ...
Sep 12, 2018 · David Foster Wallace: Suicide and the Death of Agency. we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”. Today is the 10th anniversary of David Foster Wallace’s suicide. I discovered David Foster Wallace (2/21/1962 – 9/12/2008) six years after he hanged himself at his home in California. For a while, I was under his spell, but it wasn’t ...
Sep 2, 2012 · Purchase. When writer David Foster Wallace committed suicide in 2008 at the age of 46, U.S. literature lost one of its most influential living writers. The definitive account of Wallace's life and ...
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