Comments on: dfw

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:37:33 +0000

In Infinte Jest (which is worth the read), a cocaine addicted, clinically depressed grad student hosts a radio show under the pseudonym Madame Psychosis which offers solace to lots of troubled listeners in the Boston area. She attempts suicide, survives. One character, who is attracted to her show because in it she so nakedly reveals how sad she is, remarks that he thinks she would be less sad if she could only somehow hear her own show. It makes me think that I wish David Foster Wallace could have read his own books, and been fortified to face whatever it was he didn’t want to face–the way that many of us have.

By: CR

CR — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:14:10 +0000

Gerry,

Honestly. Don’t mean to be mean at a time like this. But you’re looking like a self-serving dick running around posting the same comment on every site about your posts and the hits they generate.

I’ve been around awhile in b’land. Free advice: don’t do shit like you’re doing, especially not in re: this sort of situation.

By: G C

G C — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 16:08:28 +0000

Still stunned since hearing the news last night. I put up a MetaFilter post that's had over 300 stunned-into-silence comments that I think is worth reading, as well as (just now) a longer and more retrospective obituary post at my own site.

By: David Foster Wallace Dead « The Edge of the American West

David Foster Wallace Dead « The Edge of the American West — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:50:26 +0000

[...] reaction nails mine. Wallace was a brilliant, unpredictable author whose next book always could’ve [...]