Novelist David Foster Wallace dead at 46

http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-et-wallace15-2008sep15,0,111607.story
I can't say how sad this makes me. He was an extraordinary writer & a model of the best kind of artistic mindfulness & integrity. Even when he wrote something that made you want to smack him round the head you couldn't help warming to, admiring and being somewhat dumbfounded by him.
What a terrible and shocking loss.