David Foster Wallace Suicide
David Foster Wallace, the author of Infinite Jest, was found hanged to death in his home at age 46 this past Friday night. A heartbreaking act of suicide has provoked a very emotional response from his many readers who felt a profound personal connection to him and his work.
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Remembering David Foster Wallace
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David Foster Wallace’s Website
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RIP, DFW Thread on MetaFilter
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“No One Has Yet Proven That It is Better to Be Than Not to Be”
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A Round-up of Interviews
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Talented Fiction Writer Went Unnoticed for His Journalistic Forays
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Novelist David Foster Wallace found dead
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pretty morbid…the smoking gun has his autopsy
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a clip of David Foster Wallace reading an excerpt from “ticket to the fair” at Harper’s 150th magazine.
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He wrote a piece on John McCain for The Rolling Stone in 2000.
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Some suicide references in Wallace’s work
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Patton Oswalt on DFW’s suicide.
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Very, very sad. I read several of his works and essays, and he was a huge talent with wonderful sense of humor. His suicide definitely constitutes a huge loss to the literary world.
