pynchon-influence
Adjudication
This crux has an adversarial ledger: The Novel's Structure. The per-reading verdicts are below.
Theories on this crux
| Reading | Verdict |
|---|---|
| Minor structure & design cruxes | favored |
Discussed in
- An Interview with David Foster Wallace (David Wiley, Minnesota Daily A&E — full transcript)
- Caleb Crain interviews DFW, raw cassette (Oct 17, 2003) — tape diff vs the printed Boston Globe Approaching Infinity
- DFW with Christopher Lydon — The Connection, WBUR Boston (February 21, 1996; the rediscovered 'lost' interview)
- Dialogizing Postmodern Carnival: David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest
- Fellows Find: Infinite Jest at 20
- Lannan Foundation tribute evening for David Foster Wallace (Santa Fe, 2011): Rick Moody, David Lipsky, and Joanna Scott read; panel on the pre-publication Pale King
- Mapping the Zone Ep. 01: Wherein We Begin By Beginning — series-opening primer (DFW bio, influences, New Sincerity, composition history, adaptations); no book pages covered
- Mapping the Zone Ep. 04: I just need to put the book down and go for a walk — monthly IJ read-through, pp. 198–306 (Joelle's overdose, the Schacht match, Ennet House, Orin's backstory, Poor Tony)
- Mapping the Zone Ep. 06: Il ne faut plus qu'on pursuive le bonheur — pp. 410–503 (Marathe/Steeply, Clipperton, Gately's routine, the Antitois, the mattress)
- The Best Mind of His Generation
- The Great Concavity Ep. 26: Jeff Severs — Balancing Books, axiology, and Wallace's fictions of value (recorded Oscar night, Feb 26 2017)
- The Great Concavity Ep. 32: Shazia Ramji — guiding three IJ group reads (Poor Yorick Summer, Sacred Jest, Ennet House), poetry and Wallace, and Gravity's Rainbow parallels (recorded ~fall 2017)
- The World of David Foster Wallace