Witness History
Witness History
David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest
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22 February 2018
9 minutes
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One of the biggest novels of the late twentieth century - both literally and figuratively - was published in February 1996. Infinite Jest by American author David Foster Wallace is nearly 1100 pages long, but the ground-breaking work of literary fiction also became a bestseller.
Lucy Burns speaks to the editor of Infinite Jest, Michael Pietsch.
