{"id":850,"date":"2008-09-15T09:51:09","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T14:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danversreads.wordpress.com\/?p=850"},"modified":"2008-09-15T09:51:09","modified_gmt":"2008-09-15T14:51:09","slug":"david-foster-wallace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=850","title":{"rendered":"David Foster Wallace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>I am so sad &#8211; stunned. It reminds us all of how fragile we are and how close at hand the darkness is,&#8221; &#8211; A.M. Holmes<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a title=\"More articles about David Foster Wallace.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/w\/david_foster_wallace\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\">David Foster Wallace<\/a>, whose prodigiously observant, exuberantly plotted, grammatically and etymologically challenging, philosophically probing and culturally hyper-contemporary novels, stories and essays made him an heir to modern virtuosos like Thomas Pynchon and <a title=\"More articles about Don DeLillo.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/d\/don_delillo\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\">Don DeLillo<\/a>, an experimental contemporary of William T. Vollmann, Mark Leyner and <a title=\"More articles about Nicholson Baker.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/b\/nicholson_baker\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\">Nicholson Baker<\/a> and a clear influence on younger tour-de-force stylists like <a title=\"More articles about Dave Eggers.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/e\/dave_eggers\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\">Dave Eggers<\/a> and <a title=\"More articles about Jonathan Safran Foer.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/f\/jonathan_safran_foer\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\">Jonathan Safran Foer<\/a>, died on Friday at his home in Claremont, Calif. He was 46.<\/em> To read more click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/09\/15\/books\/15wallace.html?ex=1379217600&amp;en=11c29fee9b5f4f1d&amp;ei=5124&amp;partner=permalink&amp;exprod=permalink\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/09\/features\/wallace1.html\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a> to an interview on Salon.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am so sad &#8211; stunned. It reminds us all of how fragile we are and how close at hand the darkness is,&#8221; &#8211; A.M. Holmes David Foster Wallace, whose prodigiously observant, exuberantly plotted, grammatically and etymologically challenging, philosophically probing and culturally hyper-contemporary novels, stories and essays made him an heir to modern virtuosos like&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-dI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}