Tag: Infinite Jest

9 Results

| September 29, 2010

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...

| September 13, 2010

lethargie

In my last post about Infinite Jest I mentioned the philosophical-theological-spiritual problem of the interesting....

| September 2, 2010

the last jest

So Infinite Summer, last year’s online book group for reading Infinite Jest, concluded with some questions for a...

| August 31, 2010

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...

| August 30, 2010

ways of jesting

When it first became common for college students to write on computers, researchers noticed some changes in the quality...

| August 25, 2010

jest the third

Episode 12 of Ulysses is called “Cyclops,” and in the schematic outline of the book that Joyce produced for a few...

| August 20, 2010

jest the second

So, in footnote 304 — ten thousand words or so ostensibly devoted to a history of Les Assassins des Fauteuils...

| August 18, 2010

jest the first

I really think Infinite Jest ought to be discussed as a novel, rather than a prophecy, but there’s no way of avoiding...

| August 16, 2010

infinite gestures

Yeah, I know everybody read Infinite Jest last summer, but I didn’t. I had a book to write. Also this summer. So...