I never read Infinite Jest, but I did read A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments and got a lot out of it. However, the DFW work that left the biggest mark on me by far was this Harper’s essay [$] about grammar and usage. To take a subject as crushingly boring as this and turn it into a saga involving nothing less than the course of democratic culture itself: this is brilliance that never dies.
Darcy has a moving tribute here.
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