Fantastic essay by Tom Bissell in the New York Times book review today, Everything About Everything: David Foster Wallace's 'Infinite Jest' at 20. It's adapted from his foreword to be included in the 20th Anniversary Edition of Infinite Jest.
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“would intend such a statement aspraise, but is a twenty-year-old novel successfulmerel y because it seems cleverly predictiveor containsscenari os that feel “relevant” to later audiences?If that were the mark of enduring fiction, Philip K. Dick would be the greatest novelist of all time.”
Excerpt From: David Foster Wallace. “Infinite Jest.” Little, Brown and Company, 2009-04-13. iBooks.
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