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Summer’s End Roundtable, Part IV
09.25.09 | Permalink | 22 Comments

This is the last of a four-part roundtable discussion with the Infinite Summer Guides. Infinite Summer: Did Infinite Jest change your life? Avery Edison: It’s definitely got me reading books again, which is marvelous. I hadn’t realized how much the internet had affected my ability to just sit down and read a book, and — […]
Guides, Rountables
Summer’s End Roundtable, Part III
09.24.09 | Permalink | 12 Comments

This is the third of a four-part roundtable discussion with the Infinite Summer Guides. Infinite Summer: Looking back, do parts of the novel that seemed superfluous at the time now make sense? Eden M Kennedy: Yes and no. The joke about “never try to pull more than your own weight” came back a few times […]
Guides, Rountables
Summer’s End Roundtable, Part II
09.23.09 | Permalink | 43 Comments

This is the second of a four-part roundtable discussion with the Infinite Summer Guides. Infinite Summer: What do you think happened to Hal? Avery Edison: I think it was the withdrawal from Bob Hope that did him in — all that mold stuff has to be a red herring, since we never got a 14-page […]
Guides, Rountables
Summer’s End Roundtable, Part I
09.22.09 | Permalink | 39 Comments

This is the first of a four-part roundtable discussion with the Infinite Summer Guides. Infinite Summer: How about that ending, huh? Matthew Baldwin: I found the ending to be incredible. Literally quote “incredible”, as in straining credulity, as in: despite the vast expanse of white space between the final sentence and the “981”, I was […]
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, […]