the gravitational pull of DFW
Ever since the Harry Ransom Center acquired the papers of David Foster Wallace and started posting photos of his...
Tag: David Foster Wallace
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commencements
Interesting to see both Jonathan Franzen and David Brooks speaking to and about college graduates in ways that suggest...
Cloud Atlas
James Joyce once wrote to a friend that the thought of Ulysses is simple; it’s only the method that’s complex. Much...
lethargie
In my last post about Infinite Jest I mentioned the philosophical-theological-spiritual problem of the interesting....
the last jest
So Infinite Summer, last year’s online book group for reading Infinite Jest, concluded with some questions for a...
Feeney on the Jest
Over at The American Scene, my blog-colleague Matt Feeney makes a case for Infinite Jest not unlike the one made in the...
ways of jesting
When it first became common for college students to write on computers, researchers noticed some changes in the quality...
jest the third
Episode 12 of Ulysses is called “Cyclops,” and in the schematic outline of the book that Joyce produced for a few...
jest the second
So, in footnote 304 — ten thousand words or so ostensibly devoted to a history of Les Assassins des Fauteuils...