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  1. Sep 20, 2019 · The Lost Years and Last Days of David Foster Wallace. He was the greatest writer of his generation — and also its most tormented. In the wake of his tragic suicide, his friends and family...

  2. 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 ...

  3. Oct 9, 2012 · At the New Yorker Festival on Saturday, the poet Mary Karr was one of several panelists who gathered for “Rereading David Foster Wallace,” moderated by Wallace biographer D.T. Max.

  4. Apr 5, 2011 · David Foster Wallace committed suicide in 2008, leaving behind one of the brightest literary legacies of his generation. His triumph, Infinite Jest, remains his best-known work, but now, a...

  5. Sep 18, 2008 · Any writer in America would have killed for his talent, but the man to whom it belonged killed himself. On Sept. 12, Wallace’s wife discovered his body at their home in Claremont, Calif. He had...

  6. Oct 9, 2012 · Karr discussed the inspiration for this poem, David Foster Wallace's suicide, at a New Yorker panel last week. Slate has kindly provided a recap of the panel: Karr and Wallace had a stormy romantic relationship in the mid-’90s.

  7. Sep 4, 2012 · He had attempted suicide the year before, in his family home, and had also gone from being a marijuana addict to an alcoholic, mostly drinking alone and in front of the television.

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