Greg's comments (member since Sep 14, 2008)

Greg's comments from the David Foster Wallace group.

yep. sad stupid day.

I think I might be in the minority about the NYT piece. I would have felt very sickened by it if her highness of all things literary had a big change of heart and started praising him without reservations.

And on ghouls (which I'm happy to see you decided to call them independently of me), there were a couple of times today I wanted to started screaming at someone in the bookstore I work at.

First at the people who were leafing through the lone copy of Broom of the System, and then putting it back. I guess they decided if they couldn't get Infinite Jest they weren't going to jump on the bandwagon yet. It's irrational but I wanted to grab them and tell them to buy the book, because at least they might read it. Maybe I was being even more close minded than usual but I couldn't help thinking that someone who runs out to buy a book once they hear someone is dead probably isn't going to actually read a gigantic book.

The second incident was with a woman who was getting a little snotty with the idea that we didn't have any DFW non-fiction. I really wanted to scream at her that we had lots of copies when he was still alive.

Fuck, I never thought the death of an author would hit me so hard.