DFW blog posting from Inside Higher Ed
As the literature librarian, I probably should have posted something about David Foster Wallace’s death when it happened, especially since I just blogged about the lost of Kate Chopin’s house. I simply had difficulty of thinking what to post in the face of such a tremendous loss. In the meantime, I have been following some of the blog discussions in the aftermath of DFW’s suicide and this post from Inside Higher Ed’s University Diaries blog just came to my attention. In it, UD discusses Julian Gough’s suggestion that academia had a role in “killing” DFW’s writing. A provocative thesis, as the comments will demonstrate, but one worth mulling over.
