In Memoriam
January 4, 2009
R.I.P., Glenn Goldman 6
by Edan Lepucki
Glenn Goldman, the owner and founder of Book Soup in West Hollywood, California, died yesterday from complications from pancreatic cancer. He was 58 years old. I first worked at Book Soup when I was nineteen, and I returned after graduating from college. I loved the place, and I still do; it’s my favorite book store [...]
November 6, 2008
Michael Crichton RIP 1
by C. Max Magee
Michael Crichton died Wednesday after a bout with cancer. Crichton looms large in my history of reading. While other writers introduced me to the potential of literary fiction, it was Crichton who really stoked my love of reading between the age of 12 and 15. I remember reading Sphere in the high school library during [...]
November 1, 2008
Studs Terkel RIP 0
by C. Max Magee
Studs Terkel died at 96 on Friday. In Chicago, Terkel’s adopted home, he was regarded as a local treasure. Terkel had a long radio career hosting shows on which he conducted wide-ranging interviews, but he was perhaps best known for his series of oral histories. The genre is now quite popular, encompassing topics from punk [...]
September 24, 2008
On DFW’s Death 0
by Kevin Hartnett
I first heard the news of David Foster Wallace’s death the morning after my wedding. I was walking around the small downtown that hosted the weekend’s festivities and ran into a couple, friends of the bride. They had left the wedding the night before with my college roommates, the group steaming back to a rented [...]
September 14, 2008
David Foster Wallace 1962-2008 11
by Garth Risk Hallberg
I. It seems fitting to begin a reflection on the late David Foster Wallace in a fit of anxiety about reception – about the propensity of words, sentences, personae, to falsify or to be misunderstood. For example: I know this seems fraudulent and fanciful and like the scratching of some deep narcissistic itch, to write [...]
September 14, 2008
David Foster Wallace, A Great American Novelist, Dead at 46 2
by Garth Risk Hallberg
The New York Times is reporting that David Foster Wallace died Friday at his California home. In lieu of more coherent reflections – at least for the time being – we at The Millions would like to salute a novelist whose achievements will stand in the company of American giants, and whose best work should [...]
