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 just raving. [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
‘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 [...]