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Please Leave 'Infinite Jest' Alone
The joke about a certain kind of man reading David Foster Wallace's massive 1996 novel has been done to death. Let's all agree to move on.
Two Women Hell Bent on Destroying 'Infinite Jest' in Bizarre Ways Join Forces
Turning David Foster Wallace's acclaimed novel into lasagna, eggs, and a cool outfit is better than reading it, writer Mira Gonzalez and comedian Jamie Loftus learned.
We Talked to the Woman Who Is Butt Chugging 'Infinite Jest'
Jamie Loftus really got tired of dudes asking about it at the bookstore.
Trump Wants to Kill the Programs That Produced Your Favorite Art
We may not get the next 'Infinite Jest,' 'The Color Purple,' or 'A Confederacy of Dunces,' if Trump gets his way.
The Cult: Georgi Kinkladze
Georgi Kinkladze symbolises the idea of something beautiful being destructive. A pure entertainment hidden in the footnotes of Manchester City's mid-nineties slump to the third tier of English football.
Consider the Pothead: I Smoked Weed out of 'Infinite Jest'
After constructing pipes and bongs out of various household items—including David Foster Wallace's postmodern masterpiece, turning 20 this week—I realized that I, too, am a creative genius.
The New David Foster Wallace Movie Would Probably Make David Foster Wallace Really Uncomfortable
The film starring Jason Segel and Jesse Eisenberg takes a stab at dramatizing the famously perceptive—and persnickety—literary heavyweight.
The Great American Hack: David Foster Wallace and Aaron Swartz
I just finished 'Infinite Jest.' Like anyone who's spent months reading a 1,008-page book, particularly this one, I'm at a loss. It's sprawling, and by this point, all the important details from the novel's opening pages are teetering on the foggy...
The Great American Hack: David Foster Wallace and Aaron Swartz
Like anyone who's spent months reading a 1,008-page book, particularly this one, I'm at a loss.
How Will the David Foster Wallace Legacy Survive Itself?
As much as I despise the thought that all this post-death doing is killing what was wonderful about what had been, it is a good reminder to anybody that what you do or say or create often only begins to define what you always are.
The Deaths of David Foster Wallace
Wallace's intersecting plotlines and cascades of footnotes were a testimony to the ‘infinitude’ of the world, as he experienced it. His biography, on the other hand, is more like a square meal than a crack binge. But it satisfies some basic biography...