I'M WE'RE JUST SAYIN': R.I.P. David

September 15, 2008

R.I.P. David

David Foster Wallace, 1962-2008

I wonder if he left a suicide note. And, if he did, were there footnotes?

Here's a great interview with Wallace from 1996, conducted while he was promoting his hefty masterpiece, Infinite Jest.

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