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“NASCAR Cancels Remainder Of Season Following David Foster Wallace’s Death” I think Wallace might have got a kick out of this.
Shock, grief, and the overwhelming sense of loss that has swept the stock car racing community following the death by apparent suicide of writer David Foster Wallace has moved NASCAR to cancel the remainder of its 2008 season in respect for the acclaimed but troubled author of Infinite Jest, A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, and Brief Interviews With Hideous Men.
In deference to the memory of Wallace, whose writing on alienation, sadness, and corporate sponsorship made him the author of the century in stock car racing circles and whom NASCAR chairman Brian France called “perhaps the greatest American writer to emerge in recent memory, and definitely our most human,” officials would not comment on how points, and therefore this year’s championship, would be determined.
At least for the moment, drivers found it hard to think about the Sprint Cup.
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September 18th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
The Onion is such a fucking douchebag.
September 18th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
Not to mention a pitiful troll.
September 18th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
Hah! Well done, Dr. Wells.
September 18th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
ha ha ha. YES!
September 19th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
Probably too soon.
That said, I have been quite a bit disturbed by the sudden deification of David Foster Wallace. Critics who previously savaged him, or gave him mediocre reviews, are suddenly hailing him as a permanent fixture in American letters? How does this happen? Death is sad, yes, but please – don’t use someone’s death as an excuse for an exercise in hyperbole. It isn’t right.
I have been looking for an excuse to re-read Infinite Jest for a few years now, but have been put off by the po-mo nature of it all, and the massive size. My tastes have changed since I first read it, but I could perhaps do it again in honour of his death. But don’t expect me to suddenly hail him as the greatest writer of his generation, or the until-recently greatest living American author. Shame on those critics.
September 21st, 2008 at 6:19 pm
I love the aside about “The Last American Hero is Junior Johnson! Yes!”