Thirty years of anti-intellectual pretexts for hating Infinite Jest

Source: Washington Examiner · Bias: Center Right

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Writer David Foster Wallace‘s doorstopper 1996 novel, Infinite Jest, has just been reissued in a 30th-anniversary edition, with a new foreword by Michelle Zauner. Oddly, when reading that foreword, one has to wade through a good deal of discussion of its readership’s demographic before one reads anything about the text itself. The ratio of words […]

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Thirty years of anti-intellectual pretexts for hating Infinite Jest

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Writer David Foster Wallace‘s doorstopper 1996 novel, Infinite Jest, has just been reissued in a 30th-anniversary edition, with a new foreword by Michelle Zauner. Oddly, when reading that foreword, one has to wade through a good deal of discussion of its readership’s demographic before one reads anything about the text itself. The ratio of words […]

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