Infinite Jest

Too Much Fun: The 'Infinite Jest' Audiobook Has No Endnotes

The Huffington Post | Andres Jauregui | Posted 04.20.2012

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On March 27, Hachette Audio released David Foster Wallace's magnum opus "Infinite Jest" -- most of it, at least -- as a 56-hour-long audiobook. Th...

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Footnoting David Foster Wallace: Part 1

Omer Rosen | Posted 11.20.2011

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In a larger sense, all of Wallace's stylings are interruptions -- Brechtian reminders that what you are reading is a construction, that behind it is a man, with his own point of view, who has obsessively constructed the world you are experiencing as whole.

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Screw Irony: What Jonathan Franzen Learned From David Foster Wallace

Charlie Alderman | Posted 08.29.2011

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James Woods describes Jonathan Franzen, as a "cultural ironist, always a twisted adjective ahead of his characters." I'd argue that this gloss of Franzen misrepresents his two most well-known novels.

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Spotted Reading In Public: What's Everyone Else Reading This Summer?

Posted 08.21.2011

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After a long, harsh winter, it is finally really warming up outside. And, boy, does it feel great! We're sure you're daydreaming of the exotic vaca...

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‘A Frightening Time In America’: Previously Unpublished David Foster Wallace Interview

The New York Review of Books | Posted 08.14.2011

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The following conversation is drawn from an interview I did with David Foster Wallace in September 2006 as part of a series of articles and radio piec...

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Tonally Inappropriate Book Covers

flavorwire.com | Posted 08.06.2011

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Everyone knows that you’re not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but um, we kind of do it all the time. In fact, half the fun of that anachroni...

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Lying About Reading: Who's Keeping Score?

newyorker.com | Posted by Elizabeth Minkel | Posted 07.25.2011

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Big books have never really been my thing. The sweeping epics, the Great Russian Novels by the Great Russian Writers, the thousand-page masterpieces: ...

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The Stockholm Syndrome Theory Of Long Novels

themillions.com | Posted 07.16.2011

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I used to be the kind of reader who gives short shrift to long novels. I used to take a wan pleasure in telling friends who had returned from a tour o...

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The Guardian's Literary Clock: Building 24 Hours Of Literary References To Time

guardian.co.uk | Posted 07.10.2011

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Amy Hertz, The Huffington Post: The Guardian has compiled a chart of literary references to time. Everything from Shakespeare to Jonathan Franzen, the...

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A David Foster Wallace Primer

flavorwire.com | Posted 06.15.2011

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If you’re already a David Foster Wallace fan we’re guessing that you won’t need our help pointing out that tomorrow marks the publication of his...

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Piecing Together A Posthumous David Foster Wallace Novel

nytimes.com | CHARLES McGRATH | Posted 06.08.2011

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In his office at Little Brown, where he is executive vice president and publisher, Michael Pietsch still has the tower of a manuscript and the handwri...

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Far From the Flames, I Empathize With David Foster Wallace in The Pale King

Tom Ruprecht | Posted 06.04.2011

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Friends of Wallace have already expressed worry that the author's suicide will affect how readers experience his posthumous The Pale King. I agree that it will. But is that really the reader's fault? And is it necessarily a bad thing?

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13 Books Nobody's Read But Says They Have (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Gabe Habash | Posted 05.25.2011

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Books are a funny thing. For hundreds of years, reading has been considered one of the highest forms of enlightenment. Because of the meaning and valu...

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Reading In Public: What Are People Reading? (PHOTOS, POLL)

The Huffington Post | Amy Hertz and Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 05.25.2011

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Love reading books and trying to figure out what to pick up next? Look no farther than the person sitting next to you anywhere in public. Instead of l...

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David Foster Wallace Thought Readers Are Smart And Tolstoy Was His Role Model

Posted 05.25.2011

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Smarter than You Think Wyatt Mason The New York Review of Books Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallac...

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David Foster Wallace vs. Dave Barry: What is good writing?

David Stoesz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dave Barry does not have this luxury. He's exposed in a way no "literary" writer is. His readers expect to be amused. Immediately.

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9 Of Your Favorite Books: Huffington Post November Readers' Picks (PHOTOS, POLL)

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Ever since we posted our first installment of the HuffPost Readers' Picks, we've gotten a flood of further reader recommendations. The feature has bee...

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Some Thoughts on Infinite Jest During the Infinite Summer

Mike Miley | Posted 05.25.2011

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If there's such a thing as the "one that got away" for books, Infinite Jest is mine. This summer, I was determined to finish it... Along with many readers at "Infinite Summer."

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