RSSTom McCarthy, “Remembering David Foster Wallace,” Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits 15 September 2008
“Infinite Jest, along with Whatever, was the best novel of the nineties. Here was a writer really getting to grips with the shape of the world and the shapes and shapings of literature: the challenges laid down to it by information technology, corporate culture, the manifold addictions that bind us to our bodies and to one another. The essays were even better: geometry and tornadoes, craft as represented by the art of tennis, pleasure by the horror of a luxury cruise. His death (’demapping’, as he’d say) is very sad.”
(Thanks to Brandon Walters.)