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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.
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.