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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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Matt Bucher: Why Read Infinite Jest?
06.11.09 | Permalink | 20 Comments

Matt Bucher is the administrator of the David Foster Wallace mailing list and publisher of Elegant Complexity: A Study of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. He is an editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, runs a weblog about writer Roberto Bolaño and the novel 2666, and has read Infinite Jest at least three times. I first […]
Advocacy, Guests
Mimi Smartypants: Why Read Infinite Jest?
06.08.09 | Permalink | 22 Comments

Mimi Smartypants is a Chicago writer and editor, as well as the eponymous author of a long-running weblog. A portion of her early online writing is collected in The World According to Mimi Smartypants. She has read Infinite Jest thrice. Yeah, it’s big. No reviewer, blogger, or bookstore chitchatter can resist remarking on Infinite Jest’s […]