Finish it! Infinite Jest

November 9, 2009

Reading Time: 2 minutes INFINATE JEST is enormous in many regards. THE INTIMIDATION FACTORS: Its sheer girth — it’s nearly the size of a phone book, and thicker than some. 1079 pages stare you down, laughing at the amount of your assigned pages for homework. 388 must-read footnotes spanning 96 pages. Wallace himself once said the novel is structured […]