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 ...
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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 ...