RIP, David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace found dead in his home, an apparent suicide
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again contains one of my favorite essays of all time: Wallace's account of a taking a Caribbean cruise and all the crazy he encounters on board. The prose is tight, but never dense or dry. His use of footnotes is utterly unrestrained; his footnotes have footnotes. Wallace is one of my literary idols in terms of seeing the interesting/funny/crazy in everyday life. I am sad that he will no longer be around to write books that made me laugh and then nagged at me for days, making me think carefully and seriously what he was really trying to get at with the humor.
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again contains one of my favorite essays of all time: Wallace's account of a taking a Caribbean cruise and all the crazy he encounters on board. The prose is tight, but never dense or dry. His use of footnotes is utterly unrestrained; his footnotes have footnotes. Wallace is one of my literary idols in terms of seeing the interesting/funny/crazy in everyday life. I am sad that he will no longer be around to write books that made me laugh and then nagged at me for days, making me think carefully and seriously what he was really trying to get at with the humor.