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David Foster Wallace mourned at Pomona College

"Tell me a story about how things will get better," David Foster Wallace asked his friend Jonathan Franzen last summer. It was a particularly dark summer for Wallace, mired in a depression that ended, on Sept. 12, in suicide.

By Susan Salter Reynolds

October 6, 2008

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