“[Michael] Pietsch was also still worried about how the parts [of Infinite Jest] fit together…Wallace insisted that the answers all existed, but just past the […]
Every Love Story is a Ghost Story
Regarding the footnotes in Infinite Jest, Wallace wrote to his editor: “I’ve become intensely attached to this strategy and will fight w/ all 20 claws […]
Infinite Jest was meant to be a failed entertainment, not a potted amusement,” D.T. Max writes. “[Wallace] warned his editor [Michael Pietsch] that he wasn’t […]
Regarding the first scene in Infinite Jest, D.T. Max writes: Wallace saw that the scene was a better lead-in for the novel than the discussion […]
“[Wallace had ] structured the story like a Sierpinski gasket, a geometrical figure that can be subdivided into an infinite number of identical geometrical figures. […]
D.T. Max describes some of the concerns which Wallace’s editor voiced after reading an early draft of Infinite Jest: “[Michael Pietsch’s] other major editorial worry […]
Wallace’s editor, Michael Pietsch, described Infinite Jest as follows in a 1993 letter: “It’s a novel made up out of shards, almost as if the […]
In his preface to an excerpt from Infinite Jest which appeared in Conjunctions, Wallace wrote: Under fun’s new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to […]
“Wallace and [Jonathan] Franzen drove back down to Swarthmore the next day, discussing the purpose of literature nearly the whole way,” writes D.T. Max. “Wallace […]
On page 157 of Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story, D.T. Max cites Wallace’s 1991 interview in The Review of Contemporary Fiction as follows: […]