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  I Got This Fire In My Heart, Won’t Let Me Sleep, Can’t Concentrate…

  09.16.09 | Permalink | 45 Comments

  NOTE: I realize some Infsumerians didn’t like the (fully disclosed) spoilers in my last post. There’s a big one (a nuclear one) in this post, too, but I’m wrapping up the novel this week and it would be difficult for me to do that without making this point, so here’s my apology in advance. If […]

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  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 […]

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  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  Someone recently sent me an unpublished manuscript to read and while the book itself had many things to recommend it, there was one sentence that made me laugh.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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  I’ve Seen the Future, Brother, It Is Murder

  08.19.09 | Permalink | 66 Comments

  In the underrated Mike Judge film Idiocracy, Luke Wilson is unfrozen centuries in the future where people have become so stupid that a two-hour video of a man’s naked, farting ass wins four Oscars, and Wilson has to run around desperately trying to convince everyone on the planet that humans will go extinct unless they […]

• Avery Edison, Eden M. Kennedy, Kevin Guilfoile, Matthew Baldwin, Rountables

  Midsummer Roundtable, Part V

  08.14.09 | Permalink | 7 Comments

  This is the fifth of a five-part roundtable discussion with the Infinite Summer Guides. Infinite Summer: Any predictions as to what will happen in the second half of the novel? Matthew Baldwin: I’ll tell you what I’m not expecting: anything resembling a standard climax or dénouement. In nearly all of Wallace’s non- and short-fiction I’ve […]

• Avery Edison, Eden M. Kennedy, Kevin Guilfoile, Matthew Baldwin, Rountables

  Midsummer Roundtable, Part IV

  08.13.09 | Permalink | 22 Comments

  This is the fourth of a five-part roundtable discussion with the Infinite Summer Guides. Infinite Summer: Kevin, do you find Wallace’s style influencing your own? Will the title of your next novel (The Thousand) refer to the number of endnotes you went back and inserted? Kevin Guilfoile: I’m pretty easily influenced by anything that I […]

• Avery Edison, Eden M. Kennedy, Kevin Guilfoile, Matthew Baldwin, Rountables

  Midsummer Roundtable, Part III

  08.12.09 | Permalink | 41 Comments

  This is the third of a five-part roundtable discussion with the Infinite Summer Guides. Infinite Summer: Does anyone have a favorite character? Avery Edison: I’ve written before about liking Hal the most, whilst suspecting that he may be a dick. That’s still holding true. I tend to like the smarter characters, and in a book […]

• Avery Edison, Eden M. Kennedy, Kevin Guilfoile, Matthew Baldwin, Rountables

  Midsummer Roundtable, Part II

  08.11.09 | Permalink | 36 Comments

  This is the second of a five-part roundtable discussion with the Infinite Summer Guides. Infinite Summer: Have you been sticking to the schedule? Avery Edison: For the first time since the project started I’m sticking to the schedule. I had been catching up in 75-page burst the day before my posts were due to be […]

• Avery Edison, Eden M. Kennedy, Kevin Guilfoile, Matthew Baldwin, Rountables

  Midsummer Roundtable, Part I

  08.10.09 | Permalink | 41 Comments

  This is the first of a five-part roundtable discussion with the Infinite Summer Guides. Infinite Summer: Congratulations on reaching the halfway point. Eden M. Kennedy: Thanks. Matthew Baldwin: Huzzah! Avery Edison: Thank you. Although I think that once you factor in the endnotes, we technically haven’t even started. Kevin Guilfoile: I turned 40 last year, […]

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  I Love You Though You Hurt Me So

  08.05.09 | Permalink | 16 Comments

  Years ago when I was a creative director at an ad agency/design firm, I wrote a campaign for a wood-fire Chicago steakhouse that included print ads and billboards featuring an illustration of Mrs. O’Leary’s cow and the headline: “IT’S PAYBACK TIME.” Based on assorted letters to the editor there was virtually no one who liked […]

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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.

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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

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• 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...
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• Peer on Acknowledgements: Thanks for the link. I will check it out. I was just hoping for some announcements here...
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• Peer on Acknowledgements: When will we start the new book?
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