It's not hard to identify the biggest event in Boston (or at least Massachusetts) books this year: that'd be the departure of David Foster Wallace. The Amherst graduate and imposing literary figure took his own life in September, leaving a generation lost without its intelligent, imposing, idol. Wallace gave us many grandiose works, but the man himself will be missed for a long time to come. At the time, we fought the "self-indulgent" label often stuck on DFW, saying:
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was offered to the world as a complete publication. The final book does, however, have a natural coherence, describing a single walking tour up the Cape to Provincetown, in which the sea provides a continual backdrop for his inner quest. As Thoreau moves from one small town to the next, the external world provides a form of spiritual direction, leaving the reader with as strong an impression of completeness as any of his other writings provides.
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