Infinite jest book

"Infinite Jest" by David Foster Wallace is an anti-drug anthem disguised as a postmodern parable. The book's theme goes beyond mere chemical dependency to condemn our age's enslavement to the screen. Wallace's groundbreaking art parallels his own tragic life.

The beloved 1,100-page novel is David Foster Wallace’s magnum opus and one of the most influential books of its time, but did you know he based its structure on a mathematical object called a Sierpinski Gasket and proofread it while watching a film about a St Bernard dog, on a loop?

Infinite Jest

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace on BookBub. A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America set in an addicts’ halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores...

In Memoriam, David Foster Wallace used for obit/article at bostonist.com/2008/09/15/bostonist_books_on_david_foster_... Such a tremendous, horrible loss. David Foster Wallace was an immense talent, arguably the best writer to emerge in the past 20 years. I'm glad I had a chance to see him read -- at the Boston Public Library after the release of A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again. He autographed my copy of Infinite Jest. He will be missed. Damn.

David Foster Wallace hated book blurbs — but his were fascinating.

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by Michael Moats The Infinite Jest/Meals on Wheels Fundraiser. One of the best things you can do right now is stay inside and read Infinite Jest. An even better thing you can do is give some money …

I began reading Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace around October 2008. I had ordered the book from Amazon.com after hearing of David Foster Wallace’s death. I was in France at the time, and when I got back to the U.S. there was this big, fat book waiting for me. A thousand-pager. Not too many […]