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“Infinite Jest” by David Foster Wallace is a work of generational genius. The novel is more than 1,000 pages long, funny and brilliant; despite its annoying fanboys, the book’s reputation ge ...
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William Beutler’s painstakingly detailed "Infinite Atlas" provides yet another layer to David Foster Wallace’s famously dense work. Infographic of the Day: A Map of Infinite Jest’s Zillion ...
Bardolph Martin was the last of the fashionable literary humorists. Upon his death, which could not be far away since practically everything was wrong with the old horror, nothing would be left of ...
I am seated in an office, surrounded by heads and bodies. My posture is consciously congruent to the shape of my hard chair. This is a cold room in University Administration, wood-walled, ...
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