INFINITE JEST by David Foster Wallace

Buy me a coffee: Paperback, 1079 pages Published 2006 by Back Bay Books (first published 1996) ISBN: 0316066524 My conversation on The Great Concavity podcast: David Foster Wallace Society: TOC 1. Intro 0:00:00 2. Apology 0:05:11 3. Approach to Reading 0:09:12 4. General Observations of IJ 0:10:37 5. Themes in IJ 0:12:47 6. (Attempt at) Plot Summary 0:14:13 7. Literature Review 0:20:47 8. Ramble through Reading Notes 0:47:12 9. Parting Thoughts 1:14:50 #leafbyleaf #bookreview #infinitejest #davidfosterwallace Sources Bookworm interview with David Foster Wallace (11 April 1996): “David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest: A Reader’s Guide” by Stephen J. Burn “A Reader’s Companion to Infinite Jest” by Robert Bell and William Dowling “Conversations with David Foster Wallace” edited by Stephen J. Burn “Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace” by D.T. Max “Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace” by David Lipsky “Understanding David Foster Wallace” by Marshall Boswell “Elegant Complexity: A Study of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest” by Greg Carlisle “The End of the Tour” (2015) starring Jason Segel and Jesse Eisenberg “Programming Literary Influence: David Foster Wallace’s ‘B.I. #59’” (from Texas Studies in Literature and Language) by Lucas Thompson