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  Andrew Womack: Love

  07.23.09 | Permalink | 22 Comments

  Andrew Womack is a founding editor of The Morning News. I grew up in a tennis household, amidst gleaming trophies of miniature champions immortalized in mid-serve. In my house, tennis dominated our television viewing, closets were stuffed with retired racquets, and the hampers always reeked. To this day, my father is a tremendous player, with [...]

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  infinitedetox: Waving the White Flag: Reading as Rehabilitation

  07.22.09 | Permalink | 45 Comments

  infinitedetox is blogging about addiction and Infinite Jest at infinitedetox.wordpress.com. My name is infinitedetox and I am an addict. Some time around May, 2004, I willfully entered into a relationship with pharmaceutical opiates. It began as a sort of experiment, quickly escalated into a recreation, and from there vectored toward present-day dependency on a straight [...]

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  Nick Douglas: Skim is for Wimps

  07.21.09 | Permalink | 22 Comments

  Nick Douglas is the editor of “Twitter Wit,” a collection of witty tweets coming out on August 25. In 2006, he was the founding editor of Valleywag.com. He’s probably writing a screenplay. I finished about two-thirds of the books assigned me in my three years as an English major. The department head was right to [...]

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  Brittney Gilbert: You Have Chosen To Be In Here

  07.20.09 | Permalink | 33 Comments

  Brittney Gilbert is the blogger for San Francisco’s CBS 5; she also mouths off at her long running personal blog, Sparkwood & 21. This is her first time reading a David Foster Wallace novel. Madeline L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time did it to me. It made me fall in love with fiction. I’d been an [...]

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  Kathleen Fitzpatrick: On Teaching Infinite Jest

  07.17.09 | Permalink | 58 Comments

  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 [...]

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  Nick Maniatis: The Howling Fantods

  07.10.09 | Permalink | 101 Comments

  Nick Maniatis is the owner/maintainer of the David Foster Wallace web resource The Howling Fantods as well as a high school English and Media teacher. Once he finished Infinite Jest for the fourth time he stopped counting. The Howling Fantods was inspired by Infinite Jest. I bought a discounted first edition of Infinite Jest in [...]

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  Michael Pietsch: Editing Infinite Jest

  07.03.09 | Permalink | 20 Comments

  Michael Pietsch is Executive Vice President and Publisher of Little, Brown and Company, and was David Foster Wallace’s editor. He adapted the following from “Editing Wallace,” a Q&A with Rick Moody, published in Sonora Review 55, May 2009. In April 1992 I received on submission from David Wallace’s agent, Bonnie Nadell, around 150 pages of [...]

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  Marcus Sakey: Decoding Infinite Jest; or, Don’t

  06.26.09 | Permalink | 33 Comments

  Marcus Sakey is the award-winning author of Good People, The Blade Itself: A Novel, and At the City’s Edge, all of which are in development as feature films. His new novel, The Amateurs, comes out August 6th. His website features excerpts, contests, and tips for writers. I picked up IJ the same way I imagine [...]

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  Jason Kottke: Forward

  06.21.09 | Permalink | 50 Comments

  Jason Kottke has written the weblog kottke.org since March of 1998. The archive of his Infinite Jest commentary can be found here. Is everyone in here yet? Yes? Ok. I’m thrilled to kick off Infinite Summer with this here Forward. Before we get started, I have a disclaimer to offer. Well, actually several related disclaimers [...]

• Advocacy, Guests

  Colin Meloy: Why I am Reading Infinite Jest

  06.19.09 | Permalink | 24 Comments

  Colin Meloy is the lead singer and songwriter for the band The Decemberists. Their most recent album is The Hazards of Love. I think I bought my copy of Infinite Jest in 1997. To be honest, I don’t know what inspired the purchase. Had I read A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again? Probably. [...]

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The Book

the challenge

Join endurance bibliophiles from around the world in reading Infinite Jest over the summer of 2009, June 21st to September 22nd. A thousand pages¹ ÷ 92 days = 75 pages a week. No sweat.

1. Plus endnotes^a.
a. A lot of them.

The Search

The Last 10 Posts

• Infinite Index
• Acknowledgements
• Summer’s End Roundtable, Part IV
• Summer’s End Roundtable, Part III
• Summer’s End Roundtable, Part II
• Summer’s End Roundtable, Part I
• The End
• Roundup
• Greg Carlisle: Reading Infinite Jest Changed My Life (and Now It Will Change Yours)
• Mission Improbable

The Last 10 Comments

• Pemulis' Yachting Cap on Mission Improbable: Ooh, I’m thinking maybe Gately’s ginormous head has to do...
• Pemulis' Yachting Cap on I Got This Fire In My Heart, Won’t Let Me Sleep, Can’t Concentrate…: Nucks...
• Pemulis' Yachting Cap on Summer’s End Roundtable, Part III: I just realized that Mario reminds me a bit of Owen...
• Pemulis' Yachting Cap on Summer’s End Roundtable, Part III: I’m finished! I’d started last summer...
• Tao Joannes on Infinite Index: So, are we doing it again this summer as an official thing? I’ve got some...
• Melissa on Infinite Index: Thanks, Matthew. I was keeping pace with y’all last year up until August, when I had...
• Peer on Acknowledgements: Thanks for the link. I will check it out. I was just hoping for some announcements here...
• Prolixian on Acknowledgements: Peer – if you are interested in 2666, check out bolanobolano.com. A group read...
• Peer on Acknowledgements: When will we start the new book?
• Todeswalzer on Acknowledgements: RIP Infinite Summer. It was great while it lasted.

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