David Foster Wallace. There's a long piece on his life that should be worth reading. Tomorrow, we are publishing two essays on the presidential campaigns. It's hard not to think about Wallace's brilliant take on McCain's 2000 run and how different the coverage has been this time. The 24-hour news cycle, blah, blah, blah (to [...]

It depends on the meaning of "arrival." TPM has been tracking this too.
I've been reading David Foster Wallace's essay on the old McCain (the McCain2000, the one that mocked the Christian Right, that promised to "Always. Tell you. The Truth."), and despite the obvious differences between McCain2000 and McCain2008, it's worth reading if only for [...]

For those that are still mourning/thinking about/re-reading David Foster Wallace, McSweeney's is a must read right now.

This isn't the most relevant detail to fuss over, I know, given the horrible fact of Wallace's passing. For me, and for at least one of my colleagues, Wallace was a supremely important writer—a guy who could not only access a fearsome arsenal of postmodern tools, but employ them sensibly, and make it look like [...]