Saturday, September 13, 2008

Whoa

I confess, I hated David Foster Wallace's fiction, and considered him a dangerous influence on the young (my favorite thing of his remains a piece on David Lynch published before the release of Lost Highway); but, wow, this is unexpected.

2 comments:

Alex Segura said...

Very shocking. I was never a huge fan, beyond a short story here and there, but this came out of left field.

Still, it seems like he was relatively quiet in the past 2-3 years. Or am I wrong?

Hansel Castro said...

It was sort of shocking. See what I wrote in my blog about it http://hallucina.blogspot.com Notice: I was typically tactless. But honestly it always makes me sad when I hear about succesful people killing themselves- it's like- damn, I'm unsuccessful, do I stand a chance? :-p