David Foster Wallace Discusses Infinite Jest

To the Best of Our Knowledge | Aug 8, 2015
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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