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David Foster Wallace, a dazzlingly talented author once considered the heir apparent to post-modern greats like Thomas Pynchon and Donald Bathelme, was found dead in his home September 12. He hanged himself and his wife found him in their home in California. He was 46 years old and taught at Pomona College.
Via gawker via reluctant habits.
I remember reading his first novel, "The Broom of the System", years ago, and recall thinking that every sentence was like its own novel. He drew comparisons to James Joyce for his pure verbal talents, and his novel "Infinite Jest" garnered a cult like following which it retains to this day and catapulted him into the literary stratosphere, when it was hailed as a Ulysses-esque masterwork. I must endeavor to read it now, in earnest.
Condolences to his wife, family, and friends. Thinking that this happened on September 12, and typing this on a gloomy, rainy Sunday is, to say the least, eerie.
