I guess I'm a Philistine, but when David Foster Wallace committed suicide the other day I went right on by the news, because I had never heard of him. A lot of other people had, however, and were genuinely surprised and saddened by his death. If you want to sample a selection of his work, The New Republic dug around online and has come up with a list of articles with links to them.
I have now skimmed the 11-page article he wrote in 2000 about Senator McCain for Rolling Stone, and there's no question he could report a story.
Posted by Linkmeister at September 16, 2008 09:01 PM | TrackBack