Post Tagged '‘Infinite Jest’ (30th anniversary)'

“If he had lived!” Impossible as it seems to conceive, he would have turned 64 just two months ago, on February 21. He is forever fixed in our minds as a young genius who catapulted to fame in his mid-20s and took the American literary world by storm in his early 30s with the publication of a 1,079-page novelistic tour de force (complete with 388 endnotes), followed by a national book tour that witnessed bookstores and halls in several cities packed beyond capacity. Continue Reading...