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The Work of Play in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest

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Did you know? In that interview Wallace named Barth, Coover, Burroughs, and Pynchon as the "patriarch for my patricide," and tagged Mark Leyner and Rush Limbaugh as the nineties' twin towers of postmodern irony (mccaffery-1993-interview).