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Infinite Summer » Blog Archive » How to Read Infinite Jest
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Laquo; The Schedule. How to Read Infinite Jest. The following was drafted by Matt Bucher (maintainer of the wallace-l listserv and author of this post. And augmented by input from Nick Maniatis (administrator of The Howling Fantods. A site devoted to DFW), and Kathleen Fitzpatrick (professor at Pomona College, who teaches a course entitled David Foster Wallace. There’s no wrong way to read. Front-to-back, upside-down, cut in half. Or skipping around. But here are a few tips for the Infinite Jester. Namel...
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Infinite Summer » Blog Archive » Kathleen Fitzpatrick: On Teaching Infinite Jest
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Laquo; Aren’t I Meant to be the Funny One? Raquo; Infinite Summery – Week 4. Kathleen Fitzpatrick: On Teaching Infinite Jest. Kathleen Fitzpatrick is Associate Professor of English and Media Studies at Pomona College; she’s the author of The Anxiety of Obsolescence: The American Novel in the Age of Television. And co-coordinating editor of MediaCommons. She blogs there and at Planned Obsolescence. As you may have seen mentioned in a countdown post. Here, this past spring I taught a single-author course.
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Infinite Summer » Guides
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Laquo; Previous Entries. Back in April, when I set out to recruit three more Guides, I decided to start with the folks I thought would be best suited for the role and then move down the list as I accumulated rejections (of which I expected plenty). Instead, to my great fortune, the first three people I asked accepted. [.]. Summer’s End Roundtable, Part IV. This is the last of a four-part roundtable discussion with the Infinite Summer Guides. Infinite Summer: Did Infinite Jest change your life? This is th...
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Infinite Summer » Matthew Baldwin
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Laquo; Previous Entries. Back in April, when I set out to recruit three more Guides, I decided to start with the folks I thought would be best suited for the role and then move down the list as I accumulated rejections (of which I expected plenty). Instead, to my great fortune, the first three people I asked accepted. [.]. Sincerely Yours, David Foster Wallace. Join the Tunnel Club. This is cross-posted to the forums. We’ll be featuring guests for the remainder of the week, but I’m approp...As details em...
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Infinite Summer » Blog Archive » We’re Together Everybody Knows And Here’s How The Story Goes
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Laquo; The Trick is Keeping the Truth Up-Front. Raquo; Post of the Pop-Tart Brown Sugar Cinnamon Toaster Pastry. We’re Together Everybody Knows And Here’s How The Story Goes. So, the bricklayer story. Due to my surprise at being jerked off the ground so suddenly, I lost my presence of mind and forgot to let go of the rope. Needless to say, I proceeded at a rapid rate up the side of the building. In the vicinity of the third floor I met the barrel coming down. This explains the fractured skull...The encou...
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Infinite Summer » Blog Archive » The End
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Raquo; Summer’s End Roundtable, Part I. Early in Infinite Summer, we received an email from a participant (who requested anonymity):. I went to a David Foster Wallace talk/autograph signing in Boston years ago. I asked him to write a message of congratulations to the reader on the final page. I thought this would motivate me to re-read IJ, since his congratulatory note would be waiting at the end. September 21, 2009 at 12:09 pm. September 21, 2009 at 2:01 pm. September 21, 2009 at 4:47 pm. This hexagram ...
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Infinite Summer » Rountables
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Summer’s End Roundtable, Part IV. This is the last of a four-part roundtable discussion with the Infinite Summer Guides. Infinite Summer: Did Infinite Jest change your life? Avery Edison: It’s definitely got me reading books again, which is marvelous. I hadn’t realized how much the internet had affected my ability to just sit down and read a book, and — [.]. Summer’s End Roundtable, Part III. Summer’s End Roundtable, Part II. Summer’s End Roundtable, Part I. Matthew Baldwin: I found the ending to be incr...
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Infinite Summer » Blog Archive » Summer’s End Roundtable, Part III
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Laquo; Summer’s End Roundtable, Part II. Raquo; Summer’s End Roundtable, Part IV. Summer’s End Roundtable, Part III. This is the third of a four-part roundtable discussion with the Infinite Summer Guides. Infinite Summer: Looking back, do parts of the novel that seemed superfluous at the time now make sense? I’m starting to understand that even if one section doesn’t give us any new information or make sense as a part of the story, it’s still important because it builds IJ. 8216;s tone. Infinite Jest.
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Infinite Summer » Blog Archive » Summer’s End Roundtable, Part IV
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Laquo; Summer’s End Roundtable, Part III. Summer’s End Roundtable, Part IV. This is the last of a four-part roundtable discussion with the Infinite Summer Guides. Infinite Summer: Did Infinite Jest change your life? It’s definitely got me reading books again, which is marvelous. I hadn’t realized how much the internet had affected my ability to just sit down and read a book, and — looking back — the first half of IJ. It…”) I’ve tried to quit a few times before, on an almost annual basis...I agree with Av...
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Infinite Summer » Blog Archive » Summer’s End Roundtable, Part I
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Laquo; The End. Raquo; Summer’s End Roundtable, Part II. Summer’s End Roundtable, Part I. This is the first of a four-part roundtable discussion with the Infinite Summer Guides. Infinite Summer: How about that ending, huh? Closing-credits-style litany of what happens to all the characters in the future (“Ann Kittenplan became a marketing director for NoCoat Incorporated …”). Eden M. Kennedy. Gately becomes a government actuary! Lenz gets eaten by bears! Then I slept for about nine hours. The “work ...
