Despite the Avery induced exodus, many folks tenaciously cling to the Infinite Jest bandwagon. The most indefatigable chronicles are:
| The fine folks over at Infinite Zombies | Journeyman
A Supposed Fun Blog (although they haven’t posted in a fortnight, so perhaps they have been defatigabled …) |
Crystal Bae wrote a nice little entry about Infinite Summer on her blog, Aesthetics of Everywhere. Mike Miley discussed Infinite Summer on The Huffington Post. There was also an article in The Daily Texan.
Reid Carlberg “Finished That Damn Book“. R.J. Adler of A Litany of Nonsense hit page 500 in the novel and asked “Halfway to What?”
And Jeremy Stober can’t figure out why he likes Infinite Jest:
In the meat and heft, the narrative always seems just easy enough to read that you don’t even realize how much of the novel’s world you are absorbing, as if it sort of slips in through osmosis and entrenches itself in your metabolic pathways as you lug the physical weight of the book around.
Lastly, the students of ENG 590 at Albany’s College are reading Infinite Jest in three weeks (!!), and keeping blogs all the while. You can read about the class here, and find the course website (including links to the student blogs) at ijstrose.wordpress.com.
if you have written about Infinite Jest recently, please let us know in the forums or the comments.
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Over at my journal I wrote a post a couple of days ago regarding a song a figurative Canadian musician had written entitledD.F.W.. Lyrics and a listening link are provided. I haven’t got the direct link to the post hady (I’m on my mobile), but it’s just a couple of posts down and is entitled D.F.W..
journal is here.
Pardon me… the post is entitled Godspeed, D.F.W..
I am undefatigued! Repeating myself from the thread just below, my week 7 post on brains, rats, happiness, and the problem of atheism. drew some really great comments from other Infinite Summer readers. It’s really great having these discussions.
And it’s great that people like you are putting the extra time into blogging about the book and facilitating the discussions – so thanks!
Very cool that the class is attempting a read-through in only three weeks! (Especially considering it took me about 3 times as long.) Hopefully they can manage to juggle their other course-loads as well… 😉
I put up a post about Infinite Jest and other stuff recently on my LiveJournal. No plans to start posting about it on a regular basis though (yet).
Thanks for the nod, and props too all who have been maintaining consistent blogo-activity. I want to add that all of these blogs are spoiler-free, since I know that some folks are worried about visiting them for fear of learning something too soon. But even second- or third-time readers (I’m a first-timer) are amazingly spoiler-conscious both on their blogs and in their comments on the blogs of others.
My most recent post (yesterday) is on “The Mystery of the Entertainment Master” and in another day or so I’ll have some comments up on Schtitt’s a.m. drill lecture on Two Worlds, a sort-of “Part II” of my post on his calling Hal “our revenant.”
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Thanks for the shout-out to the Infinite Jest course! After beginning the novel on August 3, we’ve just pulled even with the Infinite Summer group. The students have great things to say about the novel as they plow through it, and have really been interested in the conversations here. Cheers!
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I commented on Ezra Klein’s difficulty with IJ here:
http://bleakonomy.blogspot.com/2009/08/on-difficult-fiction.html
You know, it’s funny. The mroe I got into the book the less I wanted to write about it on my blog, and the less I wanted to read about it online. I have to admit that I may not be a 21st century reader, as the delight in finding myself in an insular world created by my own brain and a good author is cramped by sharing it with anonymous others. Also the pace was slow–I finished earlier this week. Now that I’m done I’m more inclined to play along.
Hey, thanks for mentioning Journeyman! I’m flattered to be listed with these other folks, and appreciative to everybody involved in IS for the community effort. I’ve already learned things this time around that I missed the three times before, thanks to readers here.
Yes, thank you!
Over at Emdashes, I’ve been posting little updates the last few weeks. I should say before continuing that my summer has been uncommonly crazy, and therefore I’m only at about 18% of the book so far. On the assumption that so much has already been said about the book, my strategy has been to make a list of attention-getting terms and Kindle errors. It’s kind of boring in a way, but also maybe valuable. I haven’t had any feedback yet, and I’d actually appreciate some comments from people who have read the book! There are a few odd items here and there that I’ve flagged (weird umlauts and the like) that I’d appreciate outside opinion on.
I’ve just written a new blog post about IJ: http://verbatim.blogs.com/verbatim/2009/08/infinite-midsummer.html
http://trueslant.com/childers/2009/08/14/infinite-jest-and-artistic-lifespans/
A few words from me on how Infinite Summer might be more fun than Infinite Jest.