Mon premier blog

David Foster Wallace's Infinite jest: a reader's guide Stephen Burn
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group

In his celebrated novel Infinite Jest, the late satirist David Foster Wallace imagined a reality where video chatting quickly rose, then plummeted, in popularity. Now join endurance bibliophiles from around the web as we tackle and comment upon David Foster Wallace's masterwork over the summer of 2009," we are cajoled by the persuasive people at Infinite Summer. I couldn't have had a better guide, and discovered so much about the world through his writing. Fifteen years after "Infinite Jest" was first published, and three years after I interviewed author David Foster Wallace shortly before his suicide, I've finally decided to finish his most-acclaimed novel. A great accomplishment for the non-fiction writer is making a reader out of someone more likely to be a non-reader because of his lack of interest, lack of time, or lack of commitment to the words on the page. I read the first chapter and decided that I wasn't going to be able to get through it without a reader's guide. Although in the novel the millennium has been and gone, there are no references at all to real contemporary American or global political events of the time of writing. In my 20's, fresh off my first read of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, I bought a copy of Gravity's Rainbow. It's the ultimate Teeming Brain founder and editor Matt Cardin is the author of DARK AWAKENINGS, DIVINATIONS OF THE DEEP, and the forthcoming TO ROUSE LEVIATHAN and DAEMONIC CREATIVITY: A GUIDE TO THE INNER GENIUS. He joined Avaya in Nov 2012 from SAP, where his enterprise mobility blog attracted more than 100,000 readers a month and was awarded Top Corporate Blog by BtoB Magazine. Matt Bucher is the admin of wallace-l, the David Foster Wallace listserv. Regardless of obvious connections and even direct references between authors, comparing different texts typically hinges on some sort of assumption, either on authorial intent or an individual reader's supposed reactions and responses to the text. In Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace imagines a film (also called Infinite Jest) so entertaining that anyone who starts watching it will die watching it, smiling vacantly at the screen in a pool of their own soiling. 'Infinite Jest' David Foster Wallace Notes and Errata 1. David Foster Wallace, the author best known for his 1996 novel 'Infinite Jest,' was found dead in his home, according to police. David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest was the best science fiction novel I read in the 1990s, and remains one of the best novels I've ever read in the genre. David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, Second Edition: A Reader's Guide (Readers Guide). David Foster Wallace's 1996 magnum opus, Infinite Jest, is not recommended for the casual reader. (Note: This is an excerpt from Avaya's recently-published e-book, The 2013 Guide To Collaboration Trends. Anyway, just have him pick up Stephen Burns' "David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest: A Reader's Guide." Published by Continuum Contemporaries in 2003, it's short, cheap, and goes into the novel in depth.