Though my fellow blogger Patton Dodd already so beautifully eulogized writer David Foster Wallace's early death, and Paul O'Donnell pointed readers to a wonderful piece called "Roger Federer as Religious Experience" reprinted by The New York Times last week in Wallace's honor, I can't help but devout one more small moment on Idol Chatter to this strange, quirky, postmodern philosopher-writer.
This Sunday's New York Times has a rather wonderful ode to Wallace's life and work--yet another beautiful eulogy not to be missed--this time by A.O. Scott. Scott's eulogy is called "The Best Mind of His Generation" and gives just a glimpse, but a thought-provoking one, into why the loss of David Foster Wallace will be mourned by readers and writers of all ages.
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I still can't get over the loss of David Foster Wallace and all the books that will now never be written. The loss of his mind & talent is incalculable. He was the best living writer in America and now sadly will be among the many great dead ones.
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