A few stanzas from the end of Chaucer’s long poem “Troilus and Criseyde,” the author interrupts his story to indulge in a bit of reception anxiety. “Go, litel book,” he bids the manuscript that’s soon ...

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Thirty years ago, David Foster Wallace published a book so long it’s still happening. By NS Podcasts Thirty years ago, David Foster Wallace published Infinite Jest – a novel so sprawling, so formally ...

Thirty years ago, living in Cambridge, England, I wandered into Heffers Bookshop and picked up a monstrous new novel on the display table. It had a title out of Hamlet, a Simpsons-sky dustjacket, ...

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