2009

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Jason Kottke: Forward
06.21.09 | Permalink | 50 Comments

Jason Kottke has written the weblog kottke.org since March of 1998. The archive of his Infinite Jest commentary can be found here. Is everyone in here yet? Yes? Ok. I’m thrilled to kick off Infinite Summer with this here Forward. Before we get started, I have a disclaimer to offer. Well, actually several related disclaimers […]
Preparation
Battening Down the Hatches
06.20.09 | Permalink | 13 Comments
Advocacy, Guests
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. […]
Elsewhere Jest
Roundup
06.18.09 | Permalink | 57 Comments

Michael made some Infinite Summer bookmarks with the schedule printed right on them. We were totally going to do the same thing, but whatever we would have cooked up would have looked pretty lame compared to those. In addition to creating a Google Calendar and iCal calendar for the I.S. schedule, James also says he’ll […]
Countdown, Guests
How to Read Infinite Jest
06.17.09 | Permalink | 75 Comments

The following was drafted by Matt Bucher (maintainer of the wallace-l listserv and author of this post), and augmented by input from Nick Maniatis (administrator of The Howling Fantods, a site devoted to DFW), and Kathleen Fitzpatrick (professor at Pomona College, who teaches a course entitled David Foster Wallace). There’s no wrong way to read […]
Countdown
The Schedule
06.15.09 | Permalink | 72 Comments

Clip ‘n’ Save: it’s your summer syllabus. Note that “location” refers to the Kindle. Date Page Location Percent Complete Fri, Jun 26 63 1522 6% Mon, Jun 29 94 2233 9% Fri, Jul 03 137 3236 13% Mon, Jul 06 168 3900 17% Fri, Jul 10 210 4844 21% Mon, Jul 13 242 5561 24% […]