Loss

Southern California doesn't have many literary voices. And now, we have one less.

Dave text-messaged me about Wallace's suicide while I was en mi clase de Español (lo siento, Profesora). Dave's text--Any idea why David Foster Wallace killed himself?

Is there ever any explanation?

I read Infinite Jest for one of Quincy Troupe's workshops in undergrad. It was difficult, and two weeks was not enough time for a thousand pages. But God how I admired the heart and the enterprise.