RIP David Foster Wallace {Gadling}

Sep 15th 2008 4:43PM This seems unreal. I've never met him, but to me he was one of my two favorite living writers, the other being Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and I felt them (Wallace and Marquez) to be behind only Dostoyevsky.
If anyone reading this has not read Infinite Jest, I swear to you - you will not regret it. It is almost unbelievable that a person could write such a masterpiece. He understood people perhaps better than any writer I've read; maybe my feeling is a function of how his writing combined with my personality/intellect, but it's a startlingly promising feeling to discover someone else out there is on the same wavelength. Or was, at least.

You know, he actually could be my favorite writer of all time...

Fare thee well, fare thee well; I love you more than words can tell.