http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/books/14wallace.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
I was unfamiliar with the work of David Foster Wallace, professor of English at Pomona College, who was apparently best known for the 1000-page novel “Infinite Jest.” I suppose comparing someone to Thomas Pynchon is intended to be complimentary, but I know I was never able to finish Gravity’s Rainbow. However, one reviewer refers to the overall effect as “something like a sleek Vonnegut chassis wrapped in layers of post-millennial Zola.” I’d be excited about that prospect if I knew anything about Zola. The death appears to have been a suicide. Does anybody know more about the author, and want to say a few words?