David Foster Wallace Wiki: Infinite Jest

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Infinite Jest Character Diagram
Sam Potts has created an amazing diagram that includes pretty much every character in IJ and their connections. In researching this, Sam tapped the knowledge of a number of IJ experts. Every fan of IJ simply must have this! It's 3' wide by 2' and you can check it out here »

The Pale King
David Foster Wallace's unfinished posthumous novel is to be published on April 15, 2011. Folks who've had a peek are raving about it. You can learn more about it on Wikipedia and on The Pale King website.

This is the Wiki for David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, published in 1996 by Little Brown. Besides using the page-by-page annotation, you can also read the reviews, or provide insights or observations.

Special thanks to Andrew E. Mathis whose own IJ wiki has been folded into this one. Andrew's content gives the page-by-page annotations a great kickstart. And to Erik Ketzan whose encouragement and prodding was instrumental in getting this all together. Erik runs his own excellent Literary Wiki website.


How to Use this Wiki

The Spoiler-Free Annotations by Page allows the reader to look up and contribute allusions and references while reading the book, in a convenient and spoiler-free manner.

Apart from that, it's up to you.

Page by Page Annotations

An alternate form of commentary on the text. The guiding principle of these annotations is to remain spoiler-free, so that readers can follow along without the fear that later parts of the book will be revealed..



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Featured Articles

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Wall Street Journal: David Foster Wallace: His Secret Life As a Philosopher Interesting article by Moira G. Weigel: "A new book from Columbia University Press reveals what his mentors and friends had long known: Wallace was also a talented philosopher."

If you missed David Lipsky's excellent and sad "The Lost Years & Last Days of David Foster Wallace", which appeared in Rolling Stone in the Oct 2008 issue, and used to be available online, it's too late. However, Mr Lipsky has a new book out, a memoire about his time spent with DFW, Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace. You can read an excerpt here. And it may soon be adapted for Broadway! Also, you can read The Atlantic magazine review.

Also, a nice remembrance by Laura Miller on Salon.com »

I think DFW would have been behind SaveTheWords.org »

Interview with DFW Book Club Founder, Peter Merriman

Gallery

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