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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)
- Becoming the New Man in Post-PostModernist Fiction: Portrayals of Masculinities in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest and Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club
- David Foster Wallace in the #MeToo Era: A Conversation with Clare Hayes-Brady (Steve Paulson, Los Angeles Review of Books)
- David Foster Wallace, my fateful correspondent (Nora Krug, Washington Post Books, 30th-anniversary column) — with eight unpublished DFW letters, a postcard and a holiday card
- Finding a Way In: On Michelle Zauner and the Cultural History of Infinite Jest's Forewords (Ryan Lackey, Cleveland Review of Books)
- I Hate Infinite Jest ep. 23 (pp. 652–682) — guest Hannah Smart: the Marlon Bain endnote, Avril–Orin, and a spoiler run through the wraith, JOI's suicide, and DMZ
- Infinite Cast Part 22: JOI Sr.'s tennis lesson — commentary segment (~17 min): the monologue as the Incandenza transmission engine, the mother-horror aphorism, a GameStop-videophony rhyme
- Is it OK to read Infinite Jest in public? Why the internet hates 'performative reading' (Alaina Demopoulos, The Guardian)
- Never mind the lit-bros: Infinite Jest is a true classic at 30
- The Great Concavity Ep. 42: Esther J. Cepeda — annual IJ rereads, reading Wallace as a fan not a scholar, and the Wardine debate from a Latina reader's side (recorded ~early November 2018)
- Transcendence, fast and slow: Infinite Jest and the dynamics of a cultural splash
- Well, duh
- What's So Funny About Infinite Jest? (Lora Kelley, The Paris Review)
- ZEIT Online interview with DFW (January 2007) — The Sound of Thought (Howling Fantods English back-translation)
- ‘Infinite Jest’ Has Turned Thirty