David Foster Wallace Discusses Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace catapulted to literary celebrity with Infinite Jest, a sprawling, 1,000-page masterpiece packed with multiple storylines, digressions, footnotes and page-long sentences. He talked with us back in 1996, when the book was just out. What he had to say then is just as relevant now.
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