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  2. David Foster Wallace's Suicide and Its Lessons: Letters - The ...

    www.theatlantic.com/letters/archive/2020/02/...

    Suicide Is Not an Act of Cowardice. Earlier this month, the radio host John Ziegler tweeted that David Foster Wallace’s 2008 suicide was selfish and cowardly.

  3. David Foster Wallace’s Struggle to Surpass “Infinite Jest”

    www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/03/09/the-unfinished

    The writer David Foster Wallace committed suicide on September 12th of last year. His wife, Karen Green, came home to find that he had hanged himself on the patio of their house, in Claremont ...

  4. David Foster Wallace - Wikipedia

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    On September 12, 2008, at age 46, Wallace wrote a private two-page suicide note to his wife, arranged part of the manuscript for The Pale King, and hanged himself on the back porch of his house in Claremont, California.

  5. David Foster Wallace: Suicide and the Death of Agency

    www.madinamerica.com/2018/09/david-foster...

    David Foster Wallace killed himself after going off Nardil and suffering antidepressant withdrawal syndrome for 1.5 years. Prior to going off Nardil (due to classic MAOI adverse effects), at last his life was stable, he was happy in his marriage and his job.

  6. How suicide warped David Foster Wallace’s legacy - Big Think

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    Infinite Jest author David Foster Wallace died by suicide in 2008. His tragic fate made him even more famous but arguably turned him from a countercultural figure into a cultural commodity....

  7. Lost Last Days of David Foster Wallace by David Lipsky

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    In the wake of his tragic suicide, his friends and family reveal the lifelong struggle of a beautiful mind. David Foster Wallace, an author, at The Strand bookstore in New York, Jan. 11,...

  8. His Head Pounded Like a Heart - The New York Times

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    “It was raining out of a low sky, and the tide was way out.” Those are the final words of David Foster Wallace’s kaleidoscopic, career-defining novel “Infinite Jest,” and they capture the low...