communication-solipsism
Theories on this crux
| Reading | Verdict |
|---|---|
| Minor structure & design cruxes | favored |
Discussed in
- 'Infinite Jest' Turns 30 — Hermione Hoby on WNYC's All Of It with Alison Stewart (30th-anniversary radio hour, with listener calls and texts)
- 30 years later, is Infinite Jest the best or the worst? — KUOW Meet Me Here anniversary panel (Jeannie Yandel with Will James, Katie Campbell, Dyer Oxley)
- A Sleek and Brilliant Monster: David Foster Wallace comes clean (Benjamin Weissman, LA Weekly Literary Supplement)
- BBC Radio 3, 'Endnotes': David Foster Wallace (2011) — pre-Pale King documentary with 1995 DFW tape, Amy Wallace, Mark Costello, Bonnie Nadell, Don DeLillo, Rick Moody, Curtis White, Charles Harris, and Michael Pietsch
- David Foster Wallace, 'Infinite Jest' And Lessons In Empathy
- Dialogizing Postmodern Carnival: David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest
- Four writers sitting around talking (Campbell & Dailey, OregonLive)
- IJ Book Club Ep. 03: To sleep, perchance to dream? — early season-1 panel on the Gately/DuPlessis burglary, JOI's biography, Kate Gompert, and a first tour of the filmography (pp. ~55–79 + endnote 24)
- IJ Book Club Ep. 05: Stop her! She stole my heart! — Mario and the U.S.S. Millicent Kent through Helen Steeply's Moment article (pp. ~121–144)
- Infinite Cast Part 107: Don's hospital nightmare (pp. 837–845) — commentary segment (~21 min): the wraith-as-narrator DM, the Entertainment as shell-opener, Gately in the crib
- Infinite Cast Part 41: endnote 110 pt 1 — commentary segment only (~9 min): the ONAN history dump, dialogue-as-talking-past, the narrative voice as the Incandenzas
- Infinite Cast Part 62: Antitoi Entertainent (pp. 480–489) — commentary segment (~21 min): the annular center claim, language-failure-as-lethal, the smiley-face parallel
- Jonathan Franzen, \"Farther Away\"
- Narrative Modeling and Community Organizing in The Pale King and Infinite Jest
- QPB Talks to David Foster Wallace (QPB Review, Sept 1996)
- The Consciousness of David Foster Wallace's Oblivion
- The Real Question
- Theorising David Foster Wallace's Toxic Postmodern Spaces
- Too Much Information
- \"I Am in Here\": Fragmentation and the Individual in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest