2009

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09.13.09 | Permalink | 8 Comments

Infinite Summer: Dracula … is a go. Please visit (and circulate) infinitesummer.org/dracula. After Summer Parties There are a number of post-I.S. parties in the works. Here are the ones of which we are aware: Andbutso (Austin): Skylight Books (Los Angeles): A party to celebrate the completion of Infinite Jest by people all over Los Angeles, […]
Miscellaneous
“It’s weird to feel like you miss someone you’re not even sure you know”
09.12.09 | Permalink | 30 Comments

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John Moe: I Did Not Read Infinite Jest This Summer
09.11.09 | Permalink | 70 Comments

John Moe is a writer and public radio host now living in St Paul, Minnesota. He is the author of the book Conservatize Me and his short humor pieces appear in several anthologies as well as on McSweeneys.net. I’m still upset at the author for being a thief. Ever been robbed? Like had your house […]
Avery Edison
Grapes of Wraith
09.10.09 | Permalink | 58 Comments

Yes, I’ll start off by apologizing for that post title. It’s an awful pun, rendered more awful when viewed in light of the fact that it doesn’t even make sense. Still — we’ve just spent the summer reading Infinite Jest, so hopefully we’re used to things not making sense. I, for one, thought I was […]
Kevin Guilfoile
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 […]
Eden M. Kennedy
Often He Reckons, in the Dawn, Them Up. Nobody is Ever Missing.
09.08.09 | Permalink | 8 Comments

I recall going to see The Sheltering Sky, which was based on the novel by Paul Bowles, at a theater on 34th Street in New York. I found the film a little dull, frankly — like the book itself, I wanted to like it more than I actually did. But there’s a scene at the […]
Matthew Baldwin
Hollow Man
09.08.09 | Permalink | 19 Comments

I love Nashville. Not the city (I’ve never had the pleasure of visiting), but the 1975 film by Robert Altman. Altman was something of a cinematic David Foster Wallace, creating long and sprawling narratives that were superficially “rambling” and profoundly intricate, and which focused almost exclusively on the characters and the relationships between them. Nashville […]