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David Foster Wallace died at the age of 46. Below is my first real post after I found out, and a collection of early reports, obituaries and remembrances from around the internet. DFW... Dead at 46. To say that David Foster Wallace has had a profound influence on my life, the way I think, and the way in which I perceive the world, is an understatement. I never made an effort to contact him, in fact, I actively avoided it. This seemed to be the right thing to do in the light of all I knew about David Foster Wallace. I don't know where I am going with this. Condolences to his family and friends. (New additions at the bottom of the list - the first few links were as I found out. Mostly repetition. I'm trying to choose a bit more wisely now - if you find a good link let me know. Links marked * are particularly worthy of your time. I stopped using the *, it became too hard.) (For the blogosphere response check out technorati) New York Times - Timothy Williams *
Chicago Tribune - Mark Caro* Washington City Paper - Jason Cherkis * Silicon Alley Insider - Peter Kafka Blogcritics Magazine - Books - Ted Gioia Chud.com - Devin Feraci * LA Times: Farewell, David Foster Wallace - Susan Derby* The Huffington Post - John Seery * SansPoint - Richard J. Anderson * Shane Richmond * Omnivoracious - Tom * Pop Matters - Craig Fehrman * (Interesting screencap) Buzzfeed - Links LiveJournal Post - Kelly 15/9/2008 (Australian time) NYT Books - Kakutani Jonathon Goodwin - Responds to Kakutani's position over time. I couldn't agree more. Some Came Running - DFW's editor for the Premiere pieces. Salon.com - Laura Miller NPR - All things considered The Huffington Post - Greg Boose The Guardian - Michael Carlson Uncomplicatedly - Great post, IJ spoiler warning. ABC News - In memoriam video Time - Entertainment - Journalism of DFW Time - Entertainment - Appreciation LA Times Idealistis Skeptic LA Times - Oblivion LA Times - Infinite Jest LA Times - Consider the Lobster LA Times - Life and Works AP - Authors grieve Guardian.co.uk - Book Blog New York Times - Books - Breuce Weber www.corriere.it (Italian newspaper) 16/9
Splicetoday Bostonist Radaronline Last Exit Magazine Ross and Roll Antidisingenuousmentarianism German Media obituaries, I will clean the links up after work (thanks, Ulrich) http://www.zeit.de/online/2008/38/david-foster-wallace17/9 Globe and Mail - The web remembers Globe and Mail - The Shadow of Depression Globe and Mail - Letters NPR - Newer Piece Beliefnet - Idol Chatter The Independent - Dark Side of David Foster Wallace New York Times - Opinion Stephen Schenkenberg - How Wallace made me smile - A great piece. John Ziegler - The guy DFW wrote HOST about. No comment. Some audio appreciation from the GLT newsroom - Charlie Schlenker and Charlie Harris 17/9 Part 2 Pomona College In memoriam - Note, Public memorial details at this site soon. Amherst College - In memorian Amherst College - Notes and Remembrances (Amherst members only) n+1 DFW 1962 - 2008 XFANZ Adult Entertainment - Some ad-links and images NSFW! Acephalous - How to be an Asshole. A reponse to this 18/9 KCRW - Michael Silverblatt - Remembering David Foster Wallace (and old radio interviews). I listened to this while cycling home from work today - many wonderful moments. Edward Champion's Reluctant Habits -Writers remember National Post - Canadian writers react New York Observer - Did he leave some 'larger thing'? I too was wondering this after the recent publications. SLOG - Why you should care about DFW SLOG - I was never a fan of DFW Daniel Scott Tysdal - Poem in memory of DFW Cronopios - For our readers fluent in Portuguese. Times Literary Supplement review reprints: Design Observer - DFW, Branding Theorist Playboy - Alice K. Turner tribute (NSFW only due to link text) Playboy - 'Late Night' eventually appeared as 'My Appearance' in GWCH (NSFW only due to link text) 18/9 Part 2 The Onion - NASCAR Cancels Remainder Of Season Following David Foster Wallace's Death Pop Matters - Remembering DFW Slate - Editors and writers remember DFW * The New Yorker (with right sidebar links to Good People, Asset, An Interval and, Several Birds) Joy of Sox - A great read The man who couldn't blog - Another reponse to this 20/9 SF Gate - Jon Carroll The Independent - Week in books MVN - Tennis Diary LA Times - Blogs Popwatch - Reflecting on the late author Telegraph.co.uk - Endpaper Guardian.co.uk - Fiction Guardian.co.uk - Books Wall Street Journal - Wallace's Too-Bright Fire LA Times - Straight Talk Expressed New York Observer - Leyner Remembers New York Observer - Gerry Howard on DFW Tennis.com - Reprint a la sophia - DFW's literary interpretation class syllabus Belief.net - DFW on the meaning of life 21/9 New York Times - The best mind of his generation Free Library Blog - DFW podcast from a reading in June 2004. I don't recall listening to this one. DFW reads a bit from The Soul is Not a Smithy and Incarnations of Burned Children. Link updates back to 22/9 (after the fantods had a meltdown from too many hits) The Amherst Student - In memoriam New York Observer - IJ editor on DFW Washington Post - Poet's Choice Guardian - Thw world according to wallace Blogcritics - The new canon Blogcritics - Sussman New York Mag Books - Infinite Loss New York Mag - Intelligencer The New Republic - DFW Revisited(and a good list of online publications) Publishers Weekly - Postmodern but Classic SMH blogs, All men are liars - This is water NME - Cold War Kids pay tribute Radar Online - Paige Ferrari City Pages - The Blotter ABC Radio National Australia - The Book Show (audio) Globe and Mail - A DFW moment Gawker - 23/9 New York Mag Entertainment - DFW as a teacher Prospect Magazine - Opinions Willamette Week Online - McCain's Promise The Daily Toreador - Educated should focus on life before death Salon.com - The last days of David Foster Wallace (as posted a few dyas ago) Sign and Sight - about the IJ German translation Times Online - David Baddiel on DFW Gawker - Life is pain Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Saturday Essay New York Times- Letter Belltown Messenger - misc Uncertain Principles - On Elegant Complexity Salon.com - Who is the real John McCain? Intellectual Conservative - Thoughts on suicide Boston.com - Infinite Jest Memorial tour LA Weekly - Infinite Loss Italian Links - Minimum Fax 1 Minimum Fax 2 Ready, Steady, Book - On Suicide German Links: Big thanks to IJ's German translator Ulrich Blumenbach who posted an extensive list of German links to wallace-l, I have reproduced it below. Andreas Borcholte wrote "David Foster Wallace tot aufgefunden" (David Foster Wallace found dead) in "Der Spiegel" (14/09/08): http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/0,1518,578151,00.html Wieland Freund wrote "Tod eines depressiven Genies" (Death of a depressive genius) in "Berliner Morgenpost" (15/09/08): http://www.morgenpost.de/printarchiv/kultur/article881005/Tod_eines_depressiven_Genies.html Guido Graf wrote "Manischer Zweifler" (Manic sceptic) in "Frankfurter Rundschau" (15/09/08): http://www.fr-online.de/in_und_ausland/kultur_und_medien/feuilleton/1594071_Manischer-Zweifler.html Gerrit Bartels wrote "In Zukunft ohne mich" (Henceforth without me) in "Tagesspiegel" (15/09/08): http://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/literatur/David-Foster-Wallace;art138,2614453 Thomas Leuchtenmüller wrote "Am Ende der grossen Freiheit" (At the end of the great freedom) in "Neue Zuercher Zeitung" (15/09/08): http://www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/kultur/literatur_und_kunst/selbstmord_david_foster_wallace_1.831879.html Willi Winkler wrote "Die unentrinnbare Unterhaltung" (The inescapable Entertainment) in "Sueddeutsche Zeitung" (15/09/08). Richard Kämmerlings wrote "Die Sucht ist das Wesen des Systems" (Addiction is the essence of the system) in "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" (16/09/08): Harald Jaehner wrote "Schrecklich amuesant - aber in Zukunft ohne mich" (German title of "A supposedly fun thing" but literally "Terribly funny - but henceforth without me") in "Berliner Zeitung" (15/09/08): http://www.netzeitung.de/kultur/1154017.html Tobias Rapp wrote "Suizid als Zeichen" (suicide as sign) in "taz": http://www.taz.de/1/leben/koepfe/artikel/1/suizid-als-zeichen/ Frank Schaefer wrote "Mit vielen Stimmen" (With many voices) in "junge Welt" (17/09/08): http://www.jungewelt.de/2008/09-17/087.php Eberhard Falcke wrote "In Zukunft ohne mich" (Henceforth without me) in "Die Zeit". Michael Braun wrote "Unendliche Spaesse" (Infinite Jests) in "Freitag" (19/09/08): http://www.freitag.de/2008/38/08381602.php Harald Staun wrote "Die Machtlosigkeit der Woerter und die Unendlichkeit des Wahnsinns (The helplessness / powerlessness of words and the infinity of madness) in "Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung" (21/09/08). Italian Links: Big thanks to Roberto Natalini who posted the extensive list of Italian links below to wallace-l: The last Italian publisher of DFW, Einaudi, opened a web page devoted to him http://www.einaudi.it/einaudi/ita/news/can1/5-1222.jsp There is a a story by Antonio Monda in Repubblica (he was actually the organizer of "Le conversazioni" event in 2006): http://www.einaudi.it/einaudi/ita/news/can3/9-1220.jsp and another one by the writer Tommaso Pincio (sic! it's his nom de plume, but Pincio is also a popular park in Rome): http://www.einaudi.it/einaudi/ita/news/can3/9-1221.jsp A comments page is here http://www.einaudi.it/einaudi/ita/news/can1/5-1224.jsp The other Italian publisher was Minimum Fax, and they opened the last issue of their newsletter with some translations from the McSweneey's site and put on the bottom of the page a short text by Martina Testa, one of the main DFW's translators in Italy (the translator of IJ is Edoardo Nesi) http://www.minimumfax.com/newsletter.asp?newsletterID=76&nl=1 Spanish: 4/10 Time Out Chicago - Books 9/10 About the recent Pomona College Memorial Service: LA Times The David Foster Wallace Memorial Universtiy Diaries A single cellist played... More tributes/memorials/articles: Salon article with mention of DFW Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Writers & Suicide CNN Link between creativit, mood disorders |