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Slate's Audio Book Club: Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace

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The Kebekwa Separatists

The film, It Is Alleged, has this drug-like property that once you watch it once, you will sort of watch it forever to the exclusion of doing anything else and find yourself a drooling mess. The book is, in many ways, about addiction and compulsion and access. Just down the hill from the Enfield tennis academy is a halfway house called Edit House. There are these Kebekwa separatists in wheelchairs, who...

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