David Foster Wallace committed suicide last Friday.
The NY Times has an appraisal here.
No more novels with inimitable passages like this:
Hydrolysis is the metabolic process by which organic cocaine's broken down into benzoylecgonine, methanol, ecgonine, and benzoic acid, and one reason not everybody is wired to enjoy Crosbulation is that the process is essentially toxic and can yield unpleasant neurosomatic fallout in certain systems:...In former cokehead Calvin Thrust, hydrolysis had caused a priapism that led directly to his early choice of career.
