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Temporal Shift
I’m not finished. Armed with every readerly intention of closing the Infinite Jest covers today, I didn’t pull it off. I’ve got a whole slew of excuses as to why that is, but I’m guessing that you’re...
View ArticleSeeking Order
The first thing that many people do after finishing Infinite Jest is hunt down (aka, do a Google search for) a chronological timeline of the events as they happened in the book. It’s natural to crave...
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Garbage Cans are Portraits
Its glass was green and its bottom over his head was pebbled and the light inside was…green.p 971 The thing about seeing is that we see more than is possible to understand. I was once asked to be a...
View ArticleKinds of Redemption
*I’ve made a slight change to this since its first appearance on Friday, as Mark Flannagan, during our last video round table, brought to my attention a point I’d misinterpreted in Hal’s timeline....
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The Expectation of Memory (and vice versa)
This is it – the final week of Infinite Winter. You’ve closed the covers and, likely as not, you’ve left these digs for greener pastures. I’m sure you’re probably not even reading this. But if you are,...
View ArticleBreaking Up with Infinite Jest
Reading Infinite Jest for the first time was like the start of any new relationship. Someone I trusted had put in a good word for it, and I decided to give it a go (a new book is always a bit like a...
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Paratext – Part II
There’s a certain, logical-seeming thing we have a tendency to do when we reach this stage of reading Infinite Jest. Confused, overwhelmed, under-denouemented, we delve deeper into the meaning of all...
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Only Only: Infinite Winter
Infinite Winter. It worked. We worked. Each week of Infinite Winter a frozen white snowflake went hot orange on our countdown calendar. Reading seven posts a week for fourteen weeks was a new...
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After the Beach
For all the possible directions a last post about Infinite Jest could take, I’ve decided to look ahead to what comes next. The last few months with you guys have been totally awesome, and I’ve loved...
View Article…and the tide was way out.
Thank you all for an unforgettable Winter. Ryan, Dave, Corrie, Nathan, Jenni, and Mark The post …and the tide was way out. appeared first on Infinite Winter.
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