Enormously talented and truly unique writer David Foster Wallace hanged himself on Friday at his home in California. He was just 46.

I can't recommend everything DFW wrote, but if there's one thing I'd ask you to indulge me and look at, it's his 2005 Kenyon College commencement address. It shouldn't take more than 10 minutes to read, but its effect lingers. Enjoy.

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"Tori Spelling is no longer just a New York Times best-selling author. She is now a No. 1 New York Times best-selling author. On Sept. 14, her book, sTORI Telling, will move into first place on the prestigious newspaper's non-fiction list."

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OH, CHRIST: 'ISLAMISM'? "The prizewinning British author Ian McEwan has caused a minor uproar by saying that he despised 'Islamism' because of its intolerance of homosexuality and its limits on women’s freedom …"

TRUE CONSERVATISM DEAD "William F. Buckley Jr., who marshaled polysyllabic exuberance, famously arched eyebrows and a refined, perspicacious mind to elevate conservatism to the center of American political discourse, died Wednesday at his home in Stamford, Conn."

Wanna see a shrine to depression but without any of the white guilt that ruins the Indian reservations? You're in luck, paleface!

The Los Angeles City Council is voting next week on whether or not the crumbling stucco bungalow where Charles Bukowski once lived should be preserved as a landmark. Though currently boarded up, proponents of making a monument out of the 90-year-old property where Chuck drank countless pints of swill and wrote his first novel want it to become part of a walking tour of LA.

If the motion passes, people from around the world will be able to see what sort of environment contributes to a man's persistent drunkenness and relentless pursuit to hurt women.