Sunday, September 14, 2008
David Foster Wallace, Dead at 46
When I saw Wallace read at the First Parish Church in Cambridge shortly after the publication of Oblivion, he was discussing his plans to marry. He also encouraged me to buy a set of the (unabridged) Oxford English Dictionary. According to the Times obit, he committed suicide.
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A friend's Facebook status recently said how she was saddened at the loss of DFW.
I thought, "Gee wiz. I didn't think Ike was that destructive. I hardly heard any news about Dallas-Fort Worth."
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