Mission Improbable
Yes, I know — the term “mission improbable” brings up around forty-five thousand results in Google. I am, very decidedly, not the first person to think of it. Last week I went with the title “Grapes of...
View ArticleGreg Carlisle: Reading Infinite Jest Changed My Life (and Now It Will Change...
Greg Carlisle is the author of Elegant Complexity: A Study of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest and an instructor of theater at Morehead State University. When my friend Brian handed me A Supposedly...
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As Infinite Summer draws to a close, many have penned their “final thoughts” post: Sarah’s Books: “But and so and but so I finished IJ.” I Just Read About That: “So, obviously, the first reaction is...
View ArticleThe End
Early in Infinite Summer, we received an email from a participant (who requested anonymity): I went to a David Foster Wallace talk/autograph signing in Boston years ago. I asked him to write a message...
View ArticleSummer’s End Roundtable, Part I
This is the first of a four-part roundtable discussion with the Infinite Summer Guides. Infinite Summer: How about that ending, huh? Matthew Baldwin: I found the ending to be incredible. Literally...
View ArticleSummer’s End Roundtable, Part II
This is the second of a four-part roundtable discussion with the Infinite Summer Guides. Infinite Summer: What do you think happened to Hal? Avery Edison: I think it was the withdrawal from Bob Hope...
View ArticleSummer’s End Roundtable, Part III
This is the third of a four-part roundtable discussion with the Infinite Summer Guides. Infinite Summer: Looking back, do parts of the novel that seemed superfluous at the time now make sense? Eden M...
View ArticleSummer’s End Roundtable, Part IV
This is the last of a four-part roundtable discussion with the Infinite Summer Guides. Infinite Summer: Did Infinite Jest change your life? Avery Edison: It’s definitely got me reading books again,...
View ArticleAcknowledgements
Back in April, when I set out to recruit three more Guides, I decided to start with the folks I thought would be best suited for the role and then move down the list as I accumulated rejections (of...
View ArticleInfinite Index
Here is a calendar and index of IS posts, for those who wish to tackle the novel in the summers to come.
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