MEMORY LAPSE

posted by James Reel

Over the weekend, the Arizona Daily Star carried a pathetically short blurb noting the suicide of David Foster Wallace, an important and very well-known novelist. Nobody at that uncultured and anti-intellectual newspaper seems to realize that Wallace obtained his MFA from the University of Arizona in the early 1980s—exactly the sort of local connection that the paper always plays up, sometimes to the exclusion of more important details. Here’s the news item from the Los Angeles Times, which you can follow with an appreciation of Wallace’s work in this article from Newsweek.