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

Infinite Jest is clearly and without any doubt David Foster Wallace's masterpiece. Google Reader is dead, according to Forbes. More than that: Tags: back bay books, david foster wallace, infinite jest, little brown, postmodern fiction, who was david foster wallace The possibility that Barrett Hathcock raises in his essay—that Infinite Jest will be more talked-about than read—would be both unfortunate and unnecessary, a triumph for those earnest nobodies who like to scare off readers from great literature. I am not, in general, a fan of reader's guides. (Unfortunately The occasion for our talk was the tenth anniversary of the publication of Infinite Jest. The Infinite Jest Read Thru, Part 1. Over the last several weeks, Book Riot compiled a list of readers' favorite novels. Note: this is the only thing on the list that is actually dead, and it will be Travel guides are dead, according to NBC. 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. He's also the author of a bestselling Russian-language guide to Prague. 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. The following conversation is drawn from an interview I did with David Foster Wallace in September 2006 as part of a series of articles and radio pieces about important foreign writers, artists, and movie directors who were not well known in Russia at the time. €�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. 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. A couple of years ago something sparked an interest in David Foster Wallace. Spotting a seriously ambitious reading project in the making, I gave him a copy of Infinite Jest for Christmas. The Stand by Stephen King; The Hobbit by J.R.R.