Comments on: Remembering David Foster Wallace

By: Caukzone

Caukzone — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 04:16:35 +0000

I am very happy DFW is dead and may the dogz shit on his grave for all eternity.

By: Мебель

Мебель — Wed, 23 Apr 2014 14:39:55 +0000

In my opinion, David Foster Wallace is one of the best writers of our time.

By: Paul Christian

Paul Christian — Wed, 16 Oct 2013 14:34:04 +0000

I just came across his commencement speech… It really struck me… There’s a video version out with a little video / film accompanying his speech, it’s really well done.. I believe this guy was much deeper then most people assume.

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[…] world of letters has lost a giant. We have felt nourished by the mournful graspings of sites dedicated to his memory (“He was my favourite” ~ Zadie Smith), and we grieve for the books we will never see. […]

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[…] 2008 The world of letters has lost a giant. We have felt nourished by the mournful graspings of sites dedicated to his memory (“He was my favourite” ~ Zadie Smith), and we grieve for the books we will never see. […]

By: Charlene

Charlene — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 02:28:45 +0000

It’s just weird reading people trying to outsmart write each other. I just wish I could have intervened in some meaningful way to change his mind about suicide. It may have put him out of his pain, but it left plenty of others with a bucketful. Suicide is selfish.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Sat, 22 May 2010 05:25:20 +0000

My simple heart truly loved a big noble shaggy dog.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 19:21:30 +0000

I am deeply moved by this remembrance, both on the part of the authors who shared their sentiments, and by the reader comments that followed. Having said that, I do have to say that I think Mark Ames is an absolute idiot, and it mesmerizes me that someone (NY Press, shame on you!!) would employ this person in any field, much less one that involves writing. If Mr. Ames spent more time writing and less time trying to tear other people down (in this instance Joyce, Pynchon, and DFW, in other cases: take your pick), he’d..er..um.. still be a hack. L’Ames!

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Wooden Disposition : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 06:06:30 +0000

[…] It is difficult to respond to James Wood’s remarkable misreading of Richard Powers’s Generosity without giving away the ending. As someone who respects a reader’s sense of discovery and who therefore stays mum on “spoilers” — a term that I suspect Wood is unfamiliar with — I would not dare give up the ghost. Needless to say, as I anticipated, Wood has again demonstrated his predictably vanilla failings with idea-driven novels. He is once again hysterical, starving and naked in a sad but interesting way, about a novel that is not always intended to be explicitly realist. Wood is certainly a fine literary critic and a giddy finger drummer. He’s been leveled with many needless generalizations about his aesthetic tastes and sensibilities, including Colson Whitehead’s puerile parody. But this latest New Yorker essay simply does not reflect his apparent good faith efforts to adjust his own opinions and prejudices. […]

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The Walrus Blogs » Infinite Summer: Required Reading » The Haulout — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:31:29 +0000

[…] of casting Wallace as an aesthetic villain in his extraordinary 2008 effort How Fiction Works, wrote in the aftermath of Wallace’s death, “Whatever one thought of his work, it was hard to imagine any serious reader of fiction not […]

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By: unreliable narrator

unreliable narrator — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:03:24 +0000

Since Mr. Ames doesn’t know the difference between “nauseous” and “nauseated,” I think we may safely let his comment speak for itself.

Thanks for posting these, Mr. Champion, no matter how reluctantly.

By: David

David — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:07:10 +0000

Having been ill, I got the news a month late. So I’m still absorbing it — but I got one more month than everyone else of believing that this wonderful writer was still alive, and that another “Infinite Jest” might be somewhere in the pipeline. The world is running out of people who can even read prose as good as Wallace’s, let alone people who can write it. This is a catastrophe for literature.

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Surplus Matter : An Index to the work of Tom McCarthy — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:12:08 +0000

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By: Stephen Tennent

Stephen Tennent — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:46:43 +0000

TO THE PUBLIC AT LARGE: Ignore writers and people like “Mark
Ames” he is just another “me too”: e.g. “I am a writer too, I am a painter too, I am a musician too–look at me.”
He has nothing to say. His only saving grace is that his ego is so
self-congratulatory that he smoothly reveals his lack of respect, lack of curiosity, and his enthusiastic to spew empty words. He is brave enough to have NOTHING TO SAY and ACTUALLY SAY IT.
Bravo. Your ego and blindness are transparent and those of us with hearts and brains applaud you for it. Come to Detroit sometime-I’ll introduce you to some actual writers and people: you daft twit.

By: Stephen Tennent

Stephen Tennent — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:39:45 +0000

Mr. Ames, You are an idiot, a charlatan, and a non-human. The world would actually be better off if you had died, so that the reading public can be spared more thoughtless, smug, smarmy,
wastes of time and words LIKE YOURS ARE in your entry.
Thank you for convincing me that your writing is worthless–and I actually read your words in order to come to my conclusion (unlike you and D, F. Wallace’s words). Please tell me when someone you respect dies–make sure it’s someone I don’t know, or have had any significant contact with, and I will be pleased to write my comments and a special obit for your friend–friends, have u any?

By: Stephen Tennent

Stephen Tennent — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:33:59 +0000

Mr. Mark Ames: why did you bother writing your self-promoting, superfluous, and completely unresponsive and irrelevant comment re: David Foster Wallace, a writer whose “master work” Infinite Jest, you have never tried to read because you were turned off by “literary allusions” and “typefaces”.You are are a writer, corrrect ? An actual writer ? Do you ignore books by masters because the color of the cover of the book doesnt’t appeal to you ? You ignore Joyce, Pynchon, all of whom will be remembered (unlike you) and state with ultimately arrogant bad taste (re: Wallace” that “now that he has killed himself, I cannot help but have some respect for him”.

By: Laura Foster

Laura Foster — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:30:58 +0000

It took me a year to read IJ the first time, 6 months the second time and 3 months the third. All these tributes are from scholars way, way over my head. I wonder why no one mentioned that he isn’t suffering anymore?

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Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:18:25 +0000

[…] places you might want to stop by, if you want to read more, are the tribute pages put together by Edward Champion and McSweeney’s (the latter is especially full of life, including a photo sequence of DFW […]

By: Johan

Johan — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:15:21 +0000

I’m shocked and depressed about this news. I almost can’t believe it. The world is more boring now without such a mind in it. He should be remembered as a genius based on Infinite Jest alone. My thoughts go to his family and friends.

By: Watching DFW: State Fair Twirlers and Cruise Ship Service

Watching DFW: State Fair Twirlers and Cruise Ship Service — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:02:48 +0000

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fieldus » Blog Archive » James Wood on DFW — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:06:22 +0000

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 04:39:18 +0000

Fuck you, Mark Ames, you fucking cowardly, heartless, soulless, no-good piece of shit.

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Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:16:02 +0000

[…] Local writer Jake Mohan writes a beautiful piece on the death of David Foster Wallace for the Utne Reader. (also Harper’s has made a ton of his non-fiction pieces written for them available, including the piece that became the “A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again”) (and another thing McSweeney’s has remembrances of Wallace on their front page which is a nice compliment to Ed Champion’s collection of memorials by writers) […]

By: Elena

Elena — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:07:48 +0000

May I say that I feel sad ?
His writing is – in my opinion – somewhere in between poetry and science. It’s a thin line. It is many times some kind of incadescent research. Like getting close to understanding our possible connection to the dark matter, whatever that is.
DFW mastered the English language so well, he could have written a series of best sellers. But he cared about really experimenting and trying to reach more than that, so he gave us much more than so many others.

(By the way, who is Mark Ames ??? Nauseating he is.)