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• Kevin Guilfoile

  Where Everything Was as Fresh as the Bright Blue Sky

  09.09.09 | Permalink | 24 Comments

  (Note: I’m going to bend the spoiler line in minor ways with this post, but we’re on the steep downhill to the end and I think most of us are either ahead of the calendar or so far behind it the spoiler line is almost meaningless.) When I was young–at whatever age it was when [...]

• Eden M. Kennedy

  Often He Reckons, in the Dawn, Them Up. Nobody is Ever Missing.

  09.08.09 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  I recall going to see The Sheltering Sky, which was based on the novel by Paul Bowles, at a theater on 34th Street in New York. I found the film a little dull, frankly — like the book itself, I wanted to like it more than I actually did. But there’s a scene at the [...]

• Matthew Baldwin

  Hollow Man

  09.08.09 | Permalink | 19 Comments

  I love Nashville. Not the city (I’ve never had the pleasure of visiting), but the 1975 film by Robert Altman. Altman was something of a cinematic David Foster Wallace, creating long and sprawling narratives that were superficially “rambling” and profoundly intricate, and which focused almost exclusively on the characters and the relationships between them. Nashville [...]

• Guests, Guides

  Nick Maniatis: In Search of Firm Ground

  09.04.09 | Permalink | 16 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 final 200 pages always make me feel like I’m sliding down an ultra fast slippery-dip. I can [...]

• Guests, Guides

  John Warner: My Own Infinite Summer

  09.03.09 | Permalink | 17 Comments

  John Warner is the author of the leading volume of fake writing advice, Fondling Your Muse: Infallible Advice From a Published Author to the Writerly Aspirant. He teaches at Clemson University. Twice in my life, when I had no one, David Foster Wallace was there for me. The first time was Labor Day weekend, 1988, [...]

• Guests, Guides

  Colin Meloy: Thoughts at pg. 750; or, Staying at Pace

  09.02.09 | Permalink | 29 Comments

  Colin Meloy is the lead singer and songwriter for the band The Decemberists. Their most recent album is The Hazards of Love. First thing: Apparently summer is not infinite. It’s September 2nd and it’s cold in the mornings here and the leaves are just starting to turn and our tomatoes are dying. Second thing: I’m [...]

• Guests, Guides

  Maria Bustillos: The Wonder of Wallace-L

  09.01.09 | Permalink | 18 Comments

  Maria Bustillos is the author of Dorkismo: the Macho of the Dork, in which Wallace fans may read the author’s favorite chapter, “David Foster Wallace: the Dork Lord of American Letters.” Her next book, Act Like a Gentleman, Think Like a Woman, is coming out in September. She lives in Los Angeles, can be contacted [...]

• Matthew Baldwin, Miscellaneous

  Join the Tunnel Club

  08.31.09 | Permalink | 129 Comments

  This is cross-posted to the forums. We’ll be featuring guests for the remainder of the week, but I’m appropriating my Monday slot for a discussion on the future of Infinite Summer. the sub-14 E.T.A.s historically have a kind of Tunnel Club. Like many small boys’ clubs, the Tunnel Club’s unifying raison d’etre is kind of [...]

• Avery Edison

  The Biblical Experience of Reading Infinite Jest

  08.28.09 | Permalink | 33 Comments

  Avery Edison is in transit today, so Nick Douglas is subbing in. Nick Douglas is the editor of Twitter Wit: Brilliance in 140 Characters or Less, a collection of witty tweets, which was released earlier this week. I’m an atheist – if I were in AA, I’d get on my knees with far less openness [...]

• Kevin Guilfoile

  Irony, It Has Happened To Me

  08.27.09 | Permalink | 37 Comments

  Someone recently sent me an unpublished manuscript to read and while the book itself had many things to recommend it, there was one sentence that made me laugh. I won’t use the same context because I don’t want to embarrass the author, but the gist of it was something like, “It’s so ironic that you [...]

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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...
• 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.
• Medusa4303 on Join the Tunnel Club: Thanks. Scott! I have just joined the Bolano group, and I am looking forward to...
• ariel on Join the Tunnel Club: thank you scott!!

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