Per the LA Times, David Foster Wallace hanged himself, Friday. What a tragic waste.
The first book of his I read was in late 1996. “Infinite Jest” came highly recommended by both Cecilia and Glen, Cecilia citing it as an excellent example of a genre she’d just coined called “Gonzo Futurism,” and Glen [...]
So we showed up at Webster Hall for the opening of CityChase New York, along with around a literal thousand other competitors, all of us wearing the required white shirts, all of us swimming in the humid and faintly sour-beer smell of what looked like it’s probably quite the happening club, weekend nights.
Of course, at [...]
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13143.html
Roger Simon hits the nail on the head, here.
ST. PAUL, Minn. — On behalf of the media, I would like to say we are sorry.
On behalf of the elite media, I would like to say we are very sorry.
We have asked questions this week that we should never have asked.
We have asked pathetic questions like: [...]
‘There’s no better job’ than journalism: Garcia Marquez
MEXICO CITY (AFP) — Colombian writer and Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez hailed journalism as the best profession, in rare public comments in northern Mexico.
“There’s no better job” than journalism, said the 81-year-old author of ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude,’ who started out as a journalist and often [...]