Headlines from September 15, 2008

Times obit for author David Foster Wallace, with particularly heartbreaking last paragraph.
Wallace's remarkably honest Kenyon commencement speech.
Various authors' reactions to Wallace's death.
Response to Kakutani's position on Wallace over time.
David Foster Wallace news, links, and more on The Howling Fantods!; see also Infinite Jest.
Wallace on spending seven days with John McCain; Wallace on talk radio.
Consideration of Infinite Jest as a fragment "of the best three-thousand-page novel ever written."
The truth is, Wallace has already written his next big novel---it's called The Corrections.
Video: For Wallace's look, and Franzen's, when Rose says, "your book is known to be complicated, and long, compared even to the internet."
He was not a hypocrite, just broken and split off like all men.
Wallace's editor at Premiere: "I will tell you that not only was Dave a genius and great, hilarious company, he was also one of the most stand-up guys I've ever met."
On attending a porn awards show with Wallace.
Memories, anecdotes, encounters being collected at Mcsweeneys.net; nothing is too small.
Finally, Wallace's not-much-known "The Nature of the Fun."
Throughout her political career, [Palin] has pursued vendettas, fired officials who crossed her, and sometimes blurred the line between government and personal grievance.
McCain has long rankled evangelical voters--Obama isn't having much luck converting them, either.
Op: Palin makes thinking passé; saying her main qualification is that she didn't abort is not the path to victory.
"I believe the assertion that there is such a doctrine lends greater coherence to the administration's policies than they deserve." On the Bush Doctrine, and lack of.