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When David Foster Wallace's magnificent 1,079-page novel landed in bookstores with a resounding thunk in February 1996, the author wasn't a household name. He'd written one novel and a highly ...

There are few books that carry quite so much baggage as David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. The 1,079-page tome is a sprawling, indulgent, prescient, imaginative and altogether utterly idiosyncratic ...

For many, "Infinite Jest" is a kind of sacred work. A magnum opus that can challenge readers simply to finish. The "defining work of the 1990s." One of the greatest books of all time. Or something to ...

A friend gave me a copy of Infinite Jest 20 years ago when I was a grad student in theater. I got rid of it several moves later when I realized I’d never get to the 1,076-page tome. I bought the ...

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I am not here to defend men. I’m not even necessarily here to defend David Foster Wallace, who died by suicide in 2008 and surely does not deserve all of this. I am simply begging you to get new ...

David Foster Wallace fans: Put down your copy of D.T. Max’s newly released biography of the writer, Every Love Story Is A Ghost Story and click immediately on Infinite Atlas. Non-fans, stop whatever ...

Last year, I smoked weed out of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest after turning it into a pipe. Since documenting the experience in a blog post for Broadly, I’ve been made well aware that the world ...

When David Foster Wallace’s magnificent 1,079-page novel landed in bookstores with a resounding thunk in February 1996, the author wasn’t a household name. He’d written one novel and a highly ...

A comprehensive roundup of every sordid detail about American life and technology as depicted in David Foster Wallace's novel. Infinite Atlas: A Location-Based Visualization Of A Literary Masterpiece ...