an Infinite Jest book club
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June 1: pages 1- 78 (78 pages)
June 9: pages 78-147 (79 pages)
June 16: pages 147-226 (73 pages)
June 23: pages 226-299 (73 pages)
June 30: pages 299-374 (75 pages)
July 7: pages 347-449 (75 pages)
July 14: pages 449-527 (78 pages)
July 21: pages 527-601 (74 pages)
July 28: pages 601-673 (72 pages)
August 4: pages 673-747 (74 pages)
August 11: pages 747-827 (80 pages)
August 18: pages 827-902 (75 pages)
August 25: pages 902-981 (79 pages)
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DFW Essays:
Shipping Out/A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again
Related Reading:
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Suicide’s Note by Mary Karr
Human, All Too Inhuman by James Wood
Reviews and Retrospectives:
“Infinite Jest” Has Turned Thirty. Have We Forgotten How to Read It? by Hermione Hoby in The New Yorker
David Foster Wallace's Struggle to Surpass Infinite Jest by DT Max in The New Yorker
Infinite Jest Review by Jay McInerney in The New York Times
The Cultural History of Infinite Jest’s Forewords w/Ryan William Lackey on The Cleveland Review of Books Podcast
David Foster Wallace: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men on Bookworm Podcast
Other Resources:
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Thursday, July 16 at Rodeo in Brooklyn