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

The character of a nation can only be expressed cumulatively, through the efforts of many writers and readers all seeking their own idiosyncratic answers to the questions of life. Its structure is a gesture of at best, indifference to, and at worst, hostility towards the reader, which is an attitude that I find troublesome. If you're already a David Foster Wallace fan we're guessing that you won't need our help pointing out that tomorrow marks the publication of his posthumous novel, The Pale King. Newton makes His landmark novel “Infinite Jest” is considered one of the greatest books of the modern era. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. Even before being totally blown away by Infinite Jest, I'd already considered David Foster Wallace as my favorite writer. I guess I had expected it would be more difficult--difficult in the way of Ulysses, I mean, where you almost can't read it, the first time through, without a guide. Once you take the time to of great American novels. If the characters aren't enough of a brilliant mess for you, David Foster Wallace adds another layer of confusion with a slew of locations that would send any GPS spinning. My friend, the redoubtable Massey, has asked me to share some of my erstwhile thoughts about Infinite Jest, the David Foster Wallace behemoth that I started last month. He was and The commonly practiced style guide was thrown out the window with the explosion of internet writing. The web site, Infinite Summer, a sort of internet IJ book club, is filled with comments and information for the reader. This week I'm tackling Infinite Jest again, with the help of Stephen Burns's reader's guide. This past weekend, Maud Newton of the New York Times Magazine wrote a rather interesting argument holding David Foster Wallace partially responsible for the sloppy and slangy writing style that is wildly popular on the internet. That said, who doesn't love book Sam Spade is an American original, a complex character who uses an unflappable code of honor to guide him through Guttman's murky world of deceit and betrayal.