For those who haven’t already heard, allow me to direct your attention to the launching post of Infinite Summer, an organized effort to read through Infinite Jest this summer, endnotes and all. The irony for me is that I’m too bogged down finishing a dissertation chapter about Wallace (and Dave Eggers) to participate. Maybe after […]
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The Broom of the System
3 Nov, 2007 in David Foster Wallace, dissertation, hipster chapter, Infinite Jest, person chapter, Pop Apocalypse, postirony, The Broom of the SystemI finished reading David Foster Wallace’s The Broom of the System today (for the first time), part of my preparation to write the Person Chapter of the diss. The writing of the Hipster Chapter also continues, less apace than I’d prefer, but still. I’m reading a fantastic history of the hugely-important literary journal Kenyon Review […]
The Broom of the System
3 Nov, 2007 in David Foster Wallace, dissertation, hipster chapter, Infinite Jest, person chapter, Pop Apocalypse, postirony, The Broom of the SystemI finished reading David Foster Wallace’s The Broom of the System today (for the first time), part of my preparation to write the Person Chapter of the diss. The writing of the Hipster Chapter also continues, less apace than I’d prefer, but still. I’m reading a fantastic history of the hugely-important literary journal Kenyon Review […]