Quotes of the Day

Author David Foster Wallace reads selections of his writing during the New Yorker Magazine Festival in New York September 27, 2002. (Photo by Keith Bedford/Getty Images)
Monday, Sep. 15, 2008

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  • RICHARD POWERS,
  • prizewinning novelist, on the suicide of fellow writer David Foster Wallace
Photo: Keith Bedford / Getty | Source: AP