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

I couldn't have had a better guide, and discovered so much about the world through his writing. Now join endurance bibliophiles from around the web as we tackle and comment upon David Foster Wallace's masterwork over the summer of 2009," we are cajoled by the persuasive people at Infinite Summer. Google Reader is dead, according to Forbes. Elegant Complexity is the first critical work to provide detailed and thorough commentary on each of the 192 sections of David Foster Wallace's masterful Infinite Jest Carlisle explains the novel's complex plot threads (and discrepancies) with expert insight and re: it being relatively spoiler-free: is it designed in the style of a guide to the text, a reader's companion sort of thing? Then, once again, I got a note from a professor working on a book about David Foster Wallace reminding me that he was virtually certain that my chat with Wallace was the last interview he gave before he died. A great accomplishment for the non-fiction writer is making a reader out of someone more likely to be a non-reader because of his lack of interest, lack of time, or lack of commitment to the words on the page. So instead of menacing the reader in the old Joycean way, Wallace chums it up whenever the technical stuff appears, acting like he really doesn't mean to discourage anyone. 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. David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest was the best science fiction novel I read in the 1990s, and remains one of the best novels I've ever read in the genre. Swapping lecture theatre dread for tutorial group Most David Foster Wallace fans have a self-mortifying attitude that goes something like this: “I don't feel I'm even close to understanding Infinite Jest, but I don't want to think that's deliberate. 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. €�Foreign language learning” is dead now that we're using pictographs Frankly, this anxiety is reflected in writings about the rise of radio, television, or even the film cartridge central to David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest. We'll be working through David Foster Wallace's 'Infinite Jest', in roughly hundred-page chunks. The professor also sent me a book he had written that was a reader's guide to “Infinite Jest.” A number of readers had suggested that IJ demanded a guide through its wilderness of pages and subplots. Note: this is the only thing on the list that is actually dead, and it will be Travel guides are dead, according to NBC.