“Wallace is to literature what Robin Williams or perhaps Jim Carrey is to live comedy: a creator so maniacally energetic and amused with himself that he often follows his riffs out into the stratosphere, where he orbits all alone.”
David Foster Wallace, author of Infinite Jest, apparently hanged himself on Friday night.
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