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Postmodern writer is found dead at home - NYTimes

David Foster Wallace, Influential Writer, Dies at 46 - NYTimes

Always a good day to remember what a certified genius he was and that at least we have his words to celebrate him by. Here’s links by the Howling Fantods:

• David Foster Wallace’s Kenyon Commencement Speech (purchase audio)

• David Foster Wallace’s Federer as Religious Experience

• David Foster Wallace’s Incarnations of Burned Children

• Matt Bucher’s Fantods: David Foster Wallace, wallace-l, and Literary Fandom Online

• Greg Carlisle’s Liverpool Keynote Address (scroll down to the July 29 2009 entry)

• Tim Jacobs’ Rain Taxi Essay, The Fight Considering David Foster Wallace ConsideringYou

• Jon Baskin’s Death is Not the End: David Foster Wallace: His Legacy and his Critics 

• Kathleen Fitzpatrick Requiescat in Pace

• Adam Kelly’s David Foster Wallace: the Death of the Author and the Birth of a Discipline

• David Lipsky’s “The Lost Years & Last Days of David Foster Wallace” from Rolling Stone Magazine, October 30, 2008. (archive.org link)

Good.