[PenultimateManStanding]

Ever heard of him? I haven't read Infinite Jest but I've read his short stories. Amazing. Quite worth reading. Now he's hung himself. Dead as a doorstop.

[Plantagenet]

The guy won a MacArthur genius grant.

Hard to imagine why a certified genius who had won every accolade and achieved high levels of personal, professional and financial success would kill himself --- if he was that bummed out why didn't he just take a couple weeks off and go to Hawaii or Paris or buy himself a new car or something?

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Shannymara', ':')shock: Any idea why?

[killJOY]

Bloated.

Years ago, I tried reading him.

Bloated.

I dig Tim O'Brien.

[oowolf]

Florence Foster Jenkins is dead too. Her "Queen of the night" aria from Mozart's "Magic Flute" is a hysterical cult classic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cWwA7Czi1E

[3aidlillahi]

The guy from The Office? But the season hasn't even started yet...

[Roccland]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'E')ver heard of him? I haven't read Infinite Jest but I've read his short stories. Amazing. Quite worth reading. Now he's hung himself. Dead as a doorstop.

[PenultimateManStanding]

I read Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, a collection of short stories published in 1999 and found it to be fascinating. But then again, I read Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow an acid-drenched monstrosity several times.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Shannymara', ':')shock: Any idea why?

[JohnDenver]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'I') read Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, a collection of short stories published in 1999 and found it to be fascinating.

[mattduke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'I') read Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, a collection of short stories published in 1999 and found it to be fascinating. But then again, I read Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow an acid-drenched monstrosity several times.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mattduke', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'I') read Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, a collection of short stories published in 1999 and found it to be fascinating. But then again, I read Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow an acid-drenched monstrosity several times.

[mattduke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mattduke', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'I') read Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, a collection of short stories published in 1999 and found it to be fascinating. But then again, I read Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow an acid-drenched monstrosity several times.