Growing Sentences with David Foster Wallace
http://www.kottke.org/09/03/growing-sentences-with-david-foster-wallace

how to write a book

0. Begin with an idea, a string of ideas, 1. Use them in a compound sentence, 2. Add rhythm with a dependent clause....

Now I know how @vaguery gets his posts to scroll! ;-)

glass palisades at desperate speeds, soaring north, sounding a bell-clear and nearly maternal al

Amazing bio piece on David Foster Wallace; actually chokes me up while reading; totally essential - must blog about this

David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace’s struggle to surpass “Infinite Jest.”

Article on the writer David Foster Wallace who committed suicide on Sep 12th 2008. He battled with depression.

What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of it at any given instant

"Fiction's about what it is to be a fucking human being"-dfw, dfw's writing after infinite jest, struggle with depression, portrait of older dfw, some biography

summer reading challenge--Infinite jest

David Foster Wallace

A complete list of words that David Foster Wallace circled in his American Heritage Dictionary.

via kottke.com, dozens of links about the late writer, david foster wallace

A collection of links to resources related to, anecdotes about, and eulogies of the deceased author. NB: he loved The Wire!

Jason Kottke assembled a set of links commemorating DFW.

kottke's list of remembrances, because I, too, need to close some of these tabs

Kottke rounds up quite a few links about David Foster Wallace, the acclaimed writer that died recently. I've never read anything by Wallace, but all the outpouring of sorrow makes me wonder if I should have been.