We still miss David Foster Wallace, and we’re not alone.
In GQ, Deborah Treisman (head of the New Yorker’s fiction department) discusses working with the late author:

You’ve edited a lot of great writers—what was the process like with him?
David was wonderful to edit because he was so involved with the minutiae of his work—he had a [...]

Twice recently, while riding the train, I’ve noticed someone reading David Foster Wallace’s Oblivion, and both times I’ve found myself wondering if– hoping, really–the someone was reading a particular story from that book: “Good Old Neon.”

“Good Old Neon” offers in heartbreaking detail a first-person account of the psychological suffering that leads the apparent narrator, Neal, to suicide. The story begins, “My whole life I’ve been a fraud,” and goes on to unpack the causes and consequences of that statement.

a href=”http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2009/07/14/infinite_summer/index.html”>Slate reports on Infintesummer.org, a reading-group/support group combo for those grieving David Foster Wallace’s death and those wanting to tackle his masterwork. The challenge:
Join endurance bibliophiles from around the world in reading Infinite Jest over the summer of 2009, June 21st to September 22nd. A thousand pages1 ÷ 92 days = 75 pages [...]