Why do all the writers I like kill themselves? David Foster Wallace, author of Infinite Jest and a lot of other things, as well as one of the most ferociously intelligent and talented writers I have ever had the pleasure of reading, hanged himself on Friday, September 12. Wallace, who wrote with an explosive, ironic, [...]
¶ On loss
Losing a loved one is a catastrophic event. It’s so catastrophic that its occurrence inevitably divides one’s life into a “pre-” and a “post-”; in my case, that is, there are two high-level categories of events: those that happened before my father died, and those that happened after. Everything else is minutiæ I’m prompted to [...]
My reading The Undertaking is all Lauren‘s fault. I had, surprisingly, never heard of Lynch until she mentioned him, and then I was struck with a morbid curiosity for what a third-generation funeral director (they prefer that term to the antiquated “undertaker,” despite the appropriateness of the name, and to the rather called “mortician”) would [...]
The following review may contain minor spoilers. It will likely contain more severe spoilers for readers who have not yet finished Book 6. Read on at your own risk. And so it ends. It seems like a lifetime ago that I stumbled upon Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone on the “New Young Adult Fiction” [...]
Kurt Vonnegut has passed away at the age of 84. Kurt Vonnegut, the satirical novelist who captured the absurdity of war and questioned the advances of science in darkly humorous works such as “Slaughterhouse-Five” and “Cat’s Cradle,” died Wednesday. He was 84. [...] The author of at least 19 novels, many of them best-sellers, as [...]
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