Karen Green–David Foster Wallace's widow–struggles to deal w his suicide(2011)

Re:Karen Green–David Foster Wallace's widow–struggles to dea... by pmoriarty on Thursday December 19, 2019 @11:11AM (#21836150)

Yeah, DFW is just not a good writer, imo.

He just got big popularity boost due to his suicide, much like Nirvana did when Kurt Cobain killed himself.

If both of these people stayed alive, they'd likely just have faded in to obscurity.

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Re:Karen Green–David Foster Wallace's widow–struggles to dea... by bingotips on Thursday December 19, 2019 @12:53PM (#21837329)

IJ was published in 1996 and DFW died in 2008, it was already popular long before he killed himself. And Nirvana was hugely popular after the release of Nevermind in 1991, Kurt died in 1994. What you're saying makes no sense.

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Re:Karen Green–David Foster Wallace's widow–struggles to dea... by magic_beans on Thursday December 19, 2019 @02:04PM (#21838073)

While I'm not a fan of DFW's fiction, his talent as an essayist is truly remarkable.

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Re:Karen Green–David Foster Wallace's widow–struggles to dea... by anotherone16 on Thursday December 19, 2019 @11:17AM (#21836208)

In some way they are still alive.

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Re:Karen Green–David Foster Wallace's widow–struggles to dea... by bookofjoe on Thursday December 19, 2019 @11:38AM (#21836435)

Reminds me of an observation, source unknown: "A person remains alive as long as memory of their existence persists in someone's mind."

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