David Foster Wallace's Infinite jest: a reader's guide Stephen Burn
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group

David Foster Wallace polarises readers and critics alike. David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest was the best science fiction novel I read in the 1990s, and remains one of the best novels I've ever read in the genre. ~cross-posted at Catching Days. Consider three popular, experimental novels and the technology of the era: David Foster Wallace's (1996) Infinite Jest was written at the dawn of the Internet Age. A great accomplishment for the non-fiction writer is making a reader out of someone more likely to be a non-reader because of his lack of interest, lack of time, or lack of commitment to the words on the page. He joined Avaya in Nov 2012 from SAP, where his enterprise mobility blog attracted more than 100,000 readers a month and was awarded Top Corporate Blog by BtoB Magazine. Regardless of obvious connections and even direct references between authors, comparing different texts typically hinges on some sort of assumption, either on authorial intent or an individual reader's supposed reactions and responses to the text. The Brooklyn College BDS debacle highlights the perils of pro-Israeli overkill | Main | Platonism: An Abuser's Guide » As readers have grown more accustomed to following hyperlinks and leaping about the Internet, their ability to understand information out of sequence has changed too. I've got the fucking fantods, man.” >>>David Foster Wallace throughout Infinite Jest. In his celebrated novel Infinite Jest, the late satirist David Foster Wallace imagined a reality where video chatting quickly rose, then plummeted, in popularity. On page 203: “Your jitters are starting to rub off on me. (Unfortunately The occasion for our talk was the tenth anniversary of the publication of Infinite Jest. He's also the author of a bestselling Russian-language guide to Prague. The following conversation is drawn from an interview I did with David Foster Wallace in September 2006 as part of a series of articles and radio pieces about important foreign writers, artists, and movie directors who were not well known in Russia at the time. (Note: This is an excerpt from Avaya's recently-published e-book, The 2013 Guide To Collaboration Trends. I couldn't have had a better guide, and discovered so much about the world through his writing.