reading-as-rehab
Theories on this crux
| Reading | Verdict |
|---|---|
| The anti-Entertainment & the book-as-samizdat family | open |
Discussed in
- Addiction to Itself: Self-Consciousness in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest
- David Foster Wallace, 'Infinite Jest' And Lessons In Empathy
- David Foster Wallace: the Death of the Author and the Birth of a Discipline
- Diagnosing David Foster Wallace
- 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. 04: Hatred of the work is just part of the work — Schtitt & Mario, Tiny Ewell, the first Marathe–Steeply desert section, and the ETA locker room (pp. ~79–121)
- The Fact of the Cage: Reading and Redemption in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest
- The Great Concavity Ep. 12: David Hering — Fiction and Form, the Ransom Center drafts of IJ, and the Liverpool reading group (recorded 1 April 2016)
- Theorising David Foster Wallace's Toxic Postmodern Spaces
- “Infinite Jest” Has Turned Thirty. Have We Forgotten How to Read It? (New Yorker anniversary essay + an online forum thread)