Matt Lakeman – Writing on books, experiments, and random things I can't stop thinking about
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Writing on books, experiments, and random things I can't stop thinking about
https://www.amazon.com/Infinite-Jest-Novel-20th-Anniversary/dp/0316306053 I read David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest via audiobook, which at the default speed, takes over 52.5 hours. On paper, the book is usually over 1,100 pages, including its 388 endnotes. I’ve written about books before, but these essays are so long and so much of them are devoted to summarizing the texts that I don’t really consider them reviews. I think of them more as extractions, as attempts to capture the value of the books in the most dense and entertaining way possible. Writing is a method of processing…
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