
Slate's Audio Book Club: Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace
Slate Books
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The Role of the Novel in a Culture of Visual Media
There are long sections of this book that have nothing to do with any of the major characters. And there's a lot of that through the book, these characters who just have these anxieties. I like it, but I'm kind of a sucker for like French new novel trick, the extreme description. This is that, whatever, right, big thick paint brushes.
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