2009

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Elsewhere Jest
Roundup
07.26.09 | Permalink | 12 Comments

Gerry Canavan continues to crank out stellar essays on the novel. Ditto for Paul Debraski, The Feminist Texican, and Aaron Riccio. In the Crossover Event of 2009, Andrew of Blographia Literaria posts on Scott’s Conversational Reading, about DFW’s habitual use of parenthetical names in many of his (Wallace’s) more convoluted sentences. Ray of “Love, Your […]
Summaries
Infinite Summery – Week 5
07.25.09 | Permalink | 15 Comments

Milestone Reached: 369 (37%) Chapters Read: Page 306: An overview of the prorectors’ weekend courses (including “The Toothless Predator: Breast-Feeding as Sexual Assault”!), plus a description of some anti-O.N.A.N. activity by the separatists (mirrors across the road). This section includes the 14 112 17-page “endnote 110”, a conversation between Hal and Orin regarding the true […]
Guests, Guides
Michael Wendling: Good Old Wireless
07.24.09 | Permalink | 10 Comments

Michael Wendling is a writer and producer. He is currently producing From Our Own Correspondent for the BBC World Service, and is working on a novel. Pretty much every form of media gets slammed in IJ, even the forms that don’t actually exist. The students at Enfield T.A. and the addicts at Ennet House mong […]
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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 […]