dfw RIP

The world is a less interesting place - David Foster Wallace is dead.

He was the author of Infinite Jest, a novel that changed the way I saw the world and that inspired me with its raw creativity.

He was the author of brilliant fictional short (and less short) stories: Philosophy and the mirror of nature, ...

He was a phenomenal essayist: Derivative Sport in Tornado Alley, David Lynch Keeps his Head, Host ...

He was funny: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Consider the Lobster, ...

He had greater insight into the male condition than anyone else I've heard or read: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Adult World (I), Adult World (II), A Radically Condensed History of Postindustrial Life, ...

See the LA Times. See Salon. See NYT. See Silicon Alley Insider. See a 1997 interview. See a transcript of his 2005 commencement address at Kenyon.

He can no longer be my favourite living author. I loved his short stories and essays, but was still waiting for the follow up to IJ. It will never come. 46 was far too young.

My words are inadequate.