"A man of his breadth and depth doesn't come around often."

That's how Catherine Weller, at Sam Weller's Zion Bookstore, described (to the Tribune's Julie Checkoway) David Foster Wallace, the acclaimed writer who took his own life over the weekend in his California home. He was 46.

Tributes to Wallace are all over the Web - and a fan site, The Howling Fantods, has a good compendium of them.

One question discussed in the wake of Wallace's death is whether his 1996 novel Infinite Jest, considered to be his masterpiece, would (or even could) be turned into a movie.

Karina Longworth at Spout blog tracked down the rumor that Wallace had collaborated on a screenplay. She confirmed from Glenn Kenny, former editor at Premiere magazine (in which Wallace wrote an infamous profile of David Lynch), that there is a script floating around but Wallace had no hand in it. (Kenny, by the way, wrote a heartfelt remembrance on his Some Came Running blog.) There is a movie based on Wallace's Brief Interviews With Hideous Men in the works, written and directed by John Krasinski (Jim from TV's "The Office").

(Photo: Taken, by me, this morning at Ken Sanders Rare Books.)