David Foster Wallace: suicide

There are literary heroes, and he was one. On Friday, David Foster Wallace hung himself. He was 46 years old.

From the archives:

• 1996: The Phoenix's Anne Marie Donahue interviewed the then 36-year-old Wallace, in town to promote Infinite Jest, which made him a literary star. "The less I'm being watched, the more I can watch, and the better it is for me and for my work," he said then. "If people really want to know what I ate for lunch, I guess that's okay. But it's kind of toxic." 
• 1997: Jordan Ellenberg reviews A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again.
• 1998: Tom Scocca interviewed Wallace about Supposedly Fun, Good Will Hunting (Wallace lived in Boston during the late '80s/early '90s), nonfiction tropes, and the difference between "fellatially" and "fellatically."
• 2004: Nina MacLaughlin reviews Oblivion, including the short story "Good Old Neon," in which a dissatisfied, unnamed yuppie narrator relates what led up to his suicide and what follows in the afterlife.