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David Foster Wallace's Infinite jest: a reader's guide Stephen Burn
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group

America: home of the brave, land of the freaked. Among the legacies of David Foster Wallace, the pioneering postmodernist who produced influential essays, short stories and the novel “Infinite Jest” before his 2008 suicide, count this: Antonin Scalia, author. The city of Normal, Illinois, has For readers who go the distance, there are dozens of richly drawn characters and marvelous subplots, but even the most casual browser will quickly realize this is a writer intimately familiar with three subjects: addiction, depression, and tennis. I read the first chapter and decided that I wasn't going to be able to get through it without a reader's guide. I have been avoiding writing about David Foster Wallace since he killed himself in September 2008. Hipster's Guide to What Should I Read Next. Consider three popular, experimental novels and the technology of the era: David Foster Wallace's (1996) Infinite Jest was written at the dawn of the Internet Age. There's so much that could be said about this book. By Blake Butler 5 months ago Tags: david foster wallace, literary, books, dead people, Blake Butler, the pale king, DT Max, infinite jest. New readers should turn to pages 343-374 in the pictured edition for don gately's experience of support meetings, addiction, and the unbelievable quotidien struggle for redemption. In Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace examines the United States of depression, addiction, and obsession. I had ordered the book from Amazon.com after hearing of David Foster Wallace's death. In my 20's, fresh off my first read of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, I bought a copy of Gravity's Rainbow. David Foster Wallace, the late writer of Infinite Jest and The Broom of the System and a University of Arizona alum, influenced a generation of writers with his hilarious, intelligent, dripping-with-irony-and-footnotes writing style. I began reading Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace around October 2008. The Brooklyn College BDS debacle highlights the perils of pro-Israeli overkill | Main | Platonism: An Abuser's Guide » As readers have grown more accustomed to following hyperlinks and leaping about the Internet, their ability to understand information out of sequence has changed too.