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When David Foster Wallace’s magnificent 1,079-page novel landed in bookstores with a resounding thunk in February 1996, the author wasn’t a household name. He’d written one novel and a highly ...

There are few books that carry quite so much baggage as David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. The 1,079-page tome is a sprawling, indulgent, prescient, imaginative and altogether utterly idiosyncratic ...

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For many, "Infinite Jest" is a kind of sacred work. A magnum opus that can challenge readers simply to finish. The "defining work of the 1990s." One of the greatest books of all time. Or something to ...

When David Foster Wallace’s magnificent 1,079-page novel landed in bookstores with a resounding thunk in February 1996, the author wasn’t a household name. He’d written one novel and a highly ...

It's remarkable that a book this long and experimental still merits discussions outside of niche literary circles; as literary phenomena go, 'Infinite Jest' is a complete aberration The thing is – ...