David Foster Wallace: In Memoriam
Friday night, the world lost writer David Foster Wallace who hanged himself in his Claremont, California home. The author of the genre-changing Infinite Jest also penned some of the best magazine pieces written in the past 10 years, including his Ellie-winning feature on John McCain and his article about tennis player Rodger Federer.
In a Swampland obituary, Michael Scherer offers the following praise:
For a decade at least, he has been one of our nation’s greatest ongoing innovators of narrative journalism, of the magazine story, and a rightful heir to the golden age writers of old.
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